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Home team starting pitcher goes only 1.33 innings and leaves with his team losing, reliever comes in and pitches 5.67 great innings and his team comes from behind and takes the lead.  Home team brings in "closer", who loses lead, but then home team regains lead and wins in bottom of the 7th.    Can scorer award win to the pitcher who pitched 5.67 of good innings and as opposed to the "closer" who blew the lead?

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Marty,

Are we talking baseball or softball? I can answer this if baseball rules apply. They are quite specific: the pitcher who is the pitcher of record when his team regains the lead that holds is the one credited with the win. The gods are not always fair.

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