How is it that a pitcher pitched a perfect game but the other team's members batting averages didn't go down?
354520
It was the first game of the season, and all batting averages were 0.000 going into the game, so the averages could not go down.  That's the only way it could happen.
320755
Assuming that the winning team is the visitors (which seems to be what your scenario indicates): the starting pitcher gets a no-decision.  The closer, pitching the bottom of the 9th with a 3-run lead, gets a save.  The pitcher who finished the 8th inning, regardless of what the score was when he finished pitching, gets the win because the winning run was scored before another pitcher took over.
595498
the pitcher is credited with a strikeout, however the team batting is not charged with an out.  thus, a pitcher can have more than 3 strikeouts in a single inning!
992256
because the team practices it  and its called throwing around its kind of saying good job to the pitcher and they dont always throw it around because if somebody is on base they could steal
138629
You take the number of earned runs and divide by the number of innings pitched. Then multiply by 9.\n\nYou multiply by 9 because an ERA is the average number of earned runs a pitcher gives up per full game.
682313
It has happened before, but it is a rare event.  The problem with doing it is that you end up loosing more players, because, you bump the player at the position the pitcher goes to, and then have to bring in another player to play that position once he goes back on the mound.  \n\nAlso take into account the simple fact that pitching is just as much a mental as it is a physical thing, and that taking the pitcher out of the position even for a short time can cause him to loose that mental toughness.  Concentration is so critical for pitchers, and any inside game distraction such as asking them to play another position, even for just one batter, can break that concentration, causing them not to be as effective as normal.
182440
Most leagues start 9-15 hitters and 6-10 pitchers. The hitters play every day, but the pitchers go every four or five days. Since their opportunities are smaller, a good (or bad) pitcher can more significantly impact the staff. On the other hand, a couple good hitters could easily be offset if the rest of your team is about average.\n\nBottom line, you need both to succeed. But if you don't have a couple solid pitchers, you aren't going to make much noise.
719048
Wierd rule, but as someone who scores games, I understand it.\n\nThe catcher gets credit for a putout on a strikeout. If the catcher doesn't actually catch the ball, there can't really be a putout. The catcher than has to throw the batter out at first base and the person covering first gets the putout. The catcher gets an assist.
1067163
There's no easy answer without crunching a bunch of numbers. I can't find anything online that has an easy answer. Since most AL pitchers haven't batted since college or high school, then they don't fair so well. Even in the NL, good hitting pitchers are rare.  Jason Marquis is a good hitter. He hit .310 last year, .292 the year before, but only .179 this year. Mostly, when AL pitchers bat, it's an easy strike out, weak grounder or pop-up. Please take a look at the link below for each team. I don't time to compile all the numbers. Just click on the team name and then you can scan down to the bottom of the batting stats to find the pitchers' batting stats. Don't go down too far, it's not that far down. Have fun.
720385
Are you a baseball fan... never mind.\nThey actually sit there and count the minutes and seconds each team has the ball. They add it up, and come up with a percentage. It is the most meaningless stat.
436576
That is why. Everyone thinks that baseball pitchers can't hit and that is not always true. I can't think of their names right now but I know that there are quite a few pitchers who can hit a baseball and some who have hit home runs. A few have even hit game winning home runs in the past. I think we need to give the pitchers a little more credit when it comes to hitting a baseball.
1085669
This is an unusual situation but this is how it is handled.  All of the runs that the reliever gives up are earned for the reliever.  However, in the official team stats, the runs are recorded as unearned.  This doesn't happen often but that is how the stats are recorded.
1005827
The losing pitcher is the one who is in the game when the the run scores that puts the winning team ahead for the remainder of the game.\n\nEx.  if a pitcher gives up a run in the first and is removed, and the final score is 15-8, as long as the scre was neve tied, that pitcher is the losing pitcher.  May not be fair but that's the rule.
1136682
It's kind of easy to figure out once you understand it. I still have to look back through an inning to figure it out.\n\nIf a runner reaches base because of an error than if that runner eventually scores, it is considered an unearned run.\n\nAlso, you have to imagine that that runner is out. Therefore, if there were two outs when the error happened, then any runs scored after that play would be unearned because you assume that the fielder would have fielded the ball cleanly and got the out.. No matter what.\n\nIf there are less than two outs, then at the end of the inning you look back and figure what would have happened if the runner had been out. \n\nThere are also errors that just allow a runner an extra base (like a throwing error on a play at the plate and the runner who hit the ball advances to second or third base because of the error).\n\nIn this case, you have to figure that the runner would still have been at the original base and then go through the inning and see if he would have scored.\n\nIt's a complicated thing, but if you understand it and have a scorebook in front of you, it's pretty easy to figure it out at the end of the inning.
547129
It, like the whole game of baseball, is sort of complicated math, or at least a lot of it ;-). To get slugging percentage you divide the total number of bases, of all their base hits, by the total number of times they were at bat. Just FYI the abbreviation is SLG. :-)
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Win: The pitcher who last pitched when his team took the lead. Say it's the 8th inning and the game is tied 0-0. The home team's starting pitcher pitches the top half of the inning and doesn't give up a run. The home team then scores 2 runs in the bottom half, and the closer is brought in to pitch the ninth. Because the starting pitcher was still the pitcher of record (last to pitch) when his team went ahead, he gets the win. \nThere are some stipulations, such as a starting pitcher cannot get the win if he pitches less than 5 innings, but that's the general gist of it.\n\nSave: The pitcher who ends a game with a win for his team, provided..\n1. The pitcher is the last pitcher in a game won by his team; \n2. The pitcher is not the winning pitcher (for instance, if a starting pitcher throws a complete game win or, alternatively, if the pitcher gets a blown save and then his team scores a winning run while he is the pitcher of record, sometimes known as a "vulture win"); \n3. The pitcher fulfills at least one of the following three conditions: \nHe comes into the game with a lead of no more than three runs, and pitches at least one full inning. \nHe comes into the game with the potential tying run being either on base, at bat, or on deck. \nHe pitches at least 3 innings after entering the game with a lead and finishes the game.
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think of it as base ball, \nbut a homerun is equal to one run, and the batter still stays