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In honor of Mo Rivera becoming #2 all-time in career saves last night, here's a fun list via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Pitching Game Finder - - since 1996, the leaders in saves where the pitcher required 9 pitches or less to nail down the save:
Games Link to Individual Games +-----------------+-----+-------------------------+ Trevor Hoffman 109 Ind. Games Mariano Rivera 93 Ind. Games Billy Wagner 57 Ind. Games Todd Jones 56 Ind. Games Jose Mesa 55 Ind. Games Jason Isringhause 51 Ind. Games Robb Nen 46 Ind. Games Bob Wickman 43 Ind. Games Ugueth Urbina 41 Ind. Games Roberto Hernandez 41 Ind. Games Armando Benitez 41 Ind. Games
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This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 10:27 am and is filed under Game Finders. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
September 16th, 2008 at 10:28 am
[...] been at it for a loooong time. When he got his first career save, on May 17, 1996, Joe Giradi batted second [...]
September 16th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Not long ago Rivera passed Righetti in saves of over 1 inning for the Yankees. He's now got 106 in his career. 2nd most among active pitchers are Hoffman and Foulke with 55.
September 19th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
The major differences I notice between this list and the list of most saves, period: Troy Percival had the 4th most saves, but only 12th most in under 10 pitches. Conversely, and surprisingly, Jose Mesa has the 5th most quick saves but is only 9th overall.