Win–loss record (pitching)#Losing pitcher

A Loss (indicated by L ) is a count statistic pitcher in baseball sport. There is one pitcher charged with the loss, which was at the moment in the game, in which the later victorious opponent team for the last time went with a run in the lead. This pitcher is pitcher for this game of Losing.

Allows a pitcher the opposing team a run, which gives the opponent to lead, but can be compensated for during the game, so do not get the pitcher the loss.

A pitcher can be charged with a loss, even though he has been replaced, while his team is in the lead. This can happen when the pitcher is changed during an inning, but has been left for several opposing players on base, which in the inning run scoring against the decisive runs later.

In any baseball game, there is always exactly one Losing pitcher and a Winning Pitcher, these two are called the pitcher of record. A Pitcher of Record can never get credited with a save.

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