How do you determine the winning pitcher in softball?

In a 9 inning baseball game you have to pitch 5 innings min to get a decision, how many in a 7 inning fp softball game. If you come in relief winning 3-1 in the 3rd with bases loaded, do you get a save or a win?|||In a seven-inning high-school baseball game, the starting pitcher must pitch at least four innings to be eligible for the win (NFHS rules). My GUESS is that it's the same for softball, but the NFHS doesn't make their rules available for free.





In the situation you describe, the relief pitcher in question would most likely get the win if that team didn't lose the lead for the rest of the game. If credited with a win, that pitcher can NOT be credited with a save as well. It's one or the other.





Again, I can't say this with 100% accuracy because I don't have a softball NFHS rulebook with me. I'm not sure you're referring to a game played under NFHS rules, either (but it sounds like it). Check with your league.





What I CAN say with certainty is that if this was NFHS BASEBALL, your relief pitcher would get the win if the official scorer made the correct decision.|||I should have said to give br549 the Best Answer. I'm a big fan of supporting answers with actual sources, and that's what (s)he did.

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|||From rule 9-6 article 6 NFHS fastpitch rules;





a. If the starting pitcher has pitched the first FOUR innings or more and the team is ahead when the pitcher is replaced and it holds the lead for the remainder of the game, the starting pitcher shall be the winning pitcher.





b.4. Generally, the relief pitcher credited with the win is the pitcher who is pitching when the team takes the lead and holds it for the rest of the game. However, if the relief pitcher pitches only a short while or not effectively and a succeeding relief pitcher enters ad does better work in keeping the lead, the latter shall be granted the win.





So to simply answer your question, you (or your DD) get the win.|||Most of the time the you don't have to worry about it. Because in fastpitch softball one pitcher normally pitches the whole game. Softball pitchers can pitch day after day. Because the way they pitch is more natural then the way a guy would pitch so it doesn't do anything to there shoulder. But if it did happen my guess is it would go by how many inning the pitcher was in for. And if they kept the team in the lead or helped them gain the lead.|||Are you talking about little league baseball? Because anything above that you just have to be the pitchers when your team goes ahead. In this situation if the pitcher that came in in the 3rd inning was the last pitcher to pitch they would get the save. If someone pitched after them then the would have a no decision.