Completely Retarded Question about baseball pitchers and scores

[Waterstpub87]

Foreword, I have no experience in baseball what so ever. So this question may seem like one of the biggest homer questions ever.

My understanding on pitcher rotations is that a team will have anywhere from 4-6 Starters who pitch the first 6 innings or so. I have been trying to model that data, but I am running into a question. On MLB.com it lists winning/losing pitcher. Does this refer to the Starting Pitcher, or to the relief pitcher who took over and produced that result?

[HoulihansTX]

The winning pitcher is the pitcher of record when the winning run is scored.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Winning_pi...#ixzz1tXeVOake

[Waterstpub87]

Any websites that would list results with starting pitcher instead, or is that a complete no no as baseball scores are concerned?

[HoulihansTX]

Not that I am aware of. You will probably have to go through the tedious task of combing game logs.

[Waterstpub87]

Thanks for help, Atleast this saves me sometime.