If a pitcher comes in while his team is ahead and pitches the final 3 (or more) innings, he is given a save, regardless of the score. I don't know when that became official, but it's been for my whole lifetime that I can remember.
My old man used to hate saves. I remember one morning long ago he showed me the box score of a game (in the newspaper of course, LOL) that was like 10-2 or whatever and he was incredulous that a save was awarded and used that to further justify his hatred of the stat.
My old man used to hate saves. I remember one morning long ago he showed me the box score of a game (in the newspaper of course, LOL) that was like 10-2 or whatever and he was incredulous that a save was awarded and used that to further justify his hatred of the stat.