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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
So let me get this straight: Pitcher A completes the top of the sixth. In the bottom of the sixth, your team takes the lead and you insert Pitcher B in the lineup? Why would anyone do that? You may have been the first manager in the history of baseball to have accomplished that feat. Congratulations!
Anyway, here is the relevant part of the rule:
So the pitcher who completes the top half of an inning gets the benefit of any runs scored by his team in the bottom half of the inning, even if he is replaced in the lineup that inning by (egads!) a relief pitcher.
Well, it's an error on somebody's part, I'll give you that.
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The rule says REMOVED not REPLACED..
A pinch hitter/runner will remove a player/pitcher from the game.
Bringing in a new pitcher, replaces said player.
That's a big difference.
I have been watching baseball for over 50 years, I have never once, seen a team, insert a pitcher into the lineup before he was needed to pitch.
Any baseball manager that actually did that would be fired.