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MLB recognizes the player or players in each league with the most saves each season. In retrospect, the five saves by Jack Manning meant he led the National League in its inaugural year, while Bill Hoffer was the American League's first saves champion with three. [4] Mordecai Brown was the first pitcher to record at least 10 saves in a season.
In baseball statistics, a relief pitcher is credited with a save (denoted by SV) who finishes a game for the winning team under certain prescribed circumstances. Most commonly a pitcher earns a save by entering in the ninth inning of a game in which his team is winning by three or fewer runs and finishing the game by pitching one inning without ...
Mariano Rivera has the most career saves in Major League Baseball history with 652. In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 300 save club is the group of pitchers who have recorded 300 or more regular-season saves in their careers.
The term save was being used as far back as 1952. [4] Executives Jim Toomey of the St. Louis Cardinals and Irv Kaze of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and statistician Allan Roth of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers awarded saves to pitchers who finished winning games but were not credited with the win, regardless of the margin of victory.
List of Major League Baseball career innings pitched leaders; List of Major League Baseball career games started leaders; List of Major League Baseball career games finished leaders; List of Major League Baseball career complete games leaders; List of Major League Baseball career hit batsmen leaders; List of Major League Baseball career bases ...
List of Major League Baseball career records; List of Major League Baseball single-season records; List of Major League Baseball single-game records; List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable; List of Major League Baseball record breakers by season; List of Major League Baseball individual streaks
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Grover Cleveland Alexander led the National League in victories six times, with a single-season career-high 33 wins in 1916. [5] In the American League, two pitchers have accomplished the same feat: Walter Johnson, whose 36 wins in 1913—his first season leading the league—were a single-season career high, [6] and Bob Feller. [7]