Last week Cubs closer Kerry Wood came on in the bottom of the ninth inning to close out the game with the Cubs leading the Rockies 6-5. He gave up the tying run. But the Cubs scored in the top of the tenth. Carlos Marmol pitched the bottom of the tenth and the Cubs won. Marmol got the save.
And Wood got the win. Now that makes no sense. Wood failed at his job and yet gets the win.
It's time to expose these lucky relief pitchers—the ones who absolutely, positively don’t deserve the win. How often does the pitcher who blows a save get the win? Who are those guys? Here are the answers in the last six plus years of regular season games.
Oh, and a BS win stands for Blown Save Win. I hope you weren't confusing it with something else.
| Major League Baseball |
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| Year | BS Wins |
| 2008 | 17 |
| 2007 | 64 |
| 2006 | 76 |
| 2005 | 80 |
| 2004 | 87 |
| 2003 | 73 |
| 2002 | 72 |
| Pitcher | BS Wins |
| Francisco Cordero | 8 |
| Danys Baez | 7 |
| Jason Isringhausen | 7 |
| LaTroy Hawkins | 7 |
| Tom Gordon | 7 |
| Billy Koch | 6 |
| Mariano Rivera | 6 |
| Scot Shields | 6 |
| Armando Benitez | 5 |
| Billy Wagner | 5 |
| Byung-Hyun Kim | 5 |
| David Weathers | 5 |
| Francisco Rodriguez | 5 |
| Joaquin Benoit | 5 |
| Joe Borowski | 5 |
| Keith Foulke | 5 |
| Luis Vizcaino | 5 |
| Mike Stanton | 5 |
| Octavio Dotel | 5 |
| Roberto Hernandez | 5 |
All statistics include 2002 regular season games through the games of Thursday, May 1, 2008.
Source: Baseball Info Solutions
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