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Originally Posted by kq76
LOL. "I refuse to read a post longer than 140 characters so I'm just going to stick with the dumbest possible way of doing things." And saves are simple (Occam's razor)? Do you even remember how saves are determined? I'd be impressed by anyone who could fully recite the rule without looking any of it up. I certainly couldn't, I'd forget something for sure.
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That was a hell of a lot more than 140 characters, fyvm.
A save is when a pitcher gets the last out with the tying run on base or on deck. Or pitches the 9th inning after entering with a lead of no more than 3 runs, or pitches the final 3 innings, regardless of the lead. (Doug Bird once got a save in a game the Yankees won by 21-2.)
A lot simpler than all the crap in that antique OP, IMO. And anybody who doesn't think that getting the final out is the most important thing can take it up with Donnie Moore, amongst others. Navigating a theoretically-tricky situation in the 7th is nice.
Actually winning the game is better.
Vegas doesn't pay off until the game goes final. (Or at least it didn't used to. Who knows what sort of crap DraftKings gets up to, these days? I stopped gambling before Billie Eilish was born.)