4+ out saves

There have been 82 saves this season of at least 1.1 innings. The most recent was Billy-Ball fave Ernesto Frieri of the Angels who finished off the Tigers going 1.1 innings throwing 38 pitches as he earned his 18th save of the season as the red-hot Angels edged the Tigers, 3-2.

Ernesto Frieri yesterday

If you look at the September saves of at least four outs you will see a common thread...

	Player	Date	Tm	Opp	Rslt	App,Dec	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	Pit
1	Ernesto Frieri	09-09	LAA	DET	3-2	8-9f ,S	1.1	0	0	0	1	3	0	38
2	Sergio Romo	09-07	SFG	LAD	5-2	8-9f ,S	1.1	1	0	0	0	1	0	18
3	Craig Kimbrel	09-05	ATL	COL	1-0	8-9f ,S	1.1	0	0	0	1	4	0	25
4	Jason Motte	09-03	STL	NYM	5-4	8-9f ,S	1.2	0	0	0	1	2	0	31
5	Vinnie Pestano	09-01	CLE	TEX	4-3	8-9f ,S	1.1	2	0	0	0	1	0	30
6	Fernando Rodney	09-01	TBR	TOR	5-4	8-9f ,S	1.2	1	0	0	2	2	0	28

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The only four-out reliever not for a contending team in this group was Vinnie Pestano for the Tribe and you can expect contenders to push their closers even more over the last three weeks of the season.

There are 16 pitchers who have already had multiple four-out-plus saves this season:

Rk	Player	#
1	Jason Motte	5	Ind. Games
2	Ernesto Frieri	5	Ind. Games
3	Jonathan Papelbon	4	Ind. Games
4	Huston Street	3	Ind. Games
5	Rafael Soriano	3	Ind. Games
6	Jeremy Affeldt	3	Ind. Games
7	Alfredo Aceves	3	Ind. Games
8	Matt Thornton	2	Ind. Games
9	Sergio Romo	2	Ind. Games
10	Addison Reed	2	Ind. Games
11	Casey Janssen	2	Ind. Games
12	David Hernandez	2	Ind. Games
13	Scott Downs	2	Ind. Games
14	Steve Cishek	2	Ind. Games
15	Aroldis Chapman	2	Ind. Games
16	Santiago Casilla	2	Ind. Games

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There have been 33 games in which pitchers have had at least five-out saves.

Here are the 19 saves of at least two innings:

Rk	Player	Date	Tm	Opp	Rslt	App,Dec	IP	H	R	ER
1	Derek Lowe	2012-08-13	NYY	TEX	W 8-2	6-9f ,S	4.0	2	0	0
2	Jerome Williams	2012-07-30	LAA	TEX	W 15-8	6-9f ,S	4.0	8	5	5
3	Patrick Corbin	2012-07-08	ARI	LAD	W 7-1	7-9f ,S	3.0	3	1	1
4	Evan Scribner	2012-06-15	OAK	SDP	W 10-2	7-9f ,S	3.0	0	0	0
5	Hisashi Iwakuma	2012-05-30	SEA	TEX	W 21-8	7-9f ,S	3.0	5	3	3
6	Kris Medlen	2012-04-27	ATL	PIT	W 6-1	7-9f ,S	3.0	0	0	0
7	Junichi Tazawa	2012-04-26	BOS	CHW	W 10-3	7-9f ,S	3.0	2	0	0
8	Tom Gorzelanny	2012-04-25	WSN	SDP	W 7-2	7-9f ,S	3.0	3	1	1
9	Tyler Chatwood	2012-04-11	COL	SFG	W 17-8	7-9f ,S	3.0	2	1	1
10	Vicente Padilla	2012-05-07	BOS	KCR	W 11-5	7-9f ,S	2.2	3	0	0
11	Cristhian Martinez	2012-05-06	ATL	COL	W 7-2	7-9f ,S	2.2	0	0	0
12	Josh Kinney	2012-08-19	SEA	MIN	W 5-1	7-9f ,S	2.1	0	0	0
13	Glen Perkins	2012-08-02	MIN	BOS	W 5-0	8-9f ,S	2.0	0	0	0
14	Jeremy Affeldt	2012-07-31	SFG	NYM	W 4-1	8-9f ,S	2.0	0	0	0
15	Aaron Crow	2012-07-21	KCR	MIN	W 7-3	8-9f ,S	2.0	0	0	0
16	Darren Oliver	2012-07-15	TOR	CLE	W 3-0	8-9f ,S	2.0	1	0	0
17	Scott Downs	2012-07-02	LAA	CLE	W 3-0	8-9f ,S	2.0	0	0	0
18	Jeremy Affeldt	2012-06-04	SFG	CHC	W 3-2	8-9f ,S	2.0	0	0	0
19	Rafael Dolis	2012-04-27	CHC	PHI	W 5-1	8-9f ,S	2.0	1	0	0

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In 1974, Rollie Fingers had 18 saves, just like Frieri this season, 12 of them were at least 1.1 innings.

Rk	Date	Tm	Opp	Rslt	App,Dec	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1	1974-09-18	OAK	KCR	W 5-4	7-9f ,S	2.1	4	2	2	0	1	0
2	1974-09-02	OAK	CAL	W 6-4	8-9f ,S	1.1	2	0	0	0	2	0
3	1974-09-01	OAK	DET	W 5-3	8-9f ,S	1.2	1	0	0	0	2	0
4	1974-08-07	OAK	TEX	W 8-4	6-9f ,S	4.0	4	0	0	1	2	0
5	1974-07-28 (2)	OAK	CHW	W 3-2	7-9f ,S	2.2	1	0	0	3	2	0
6	1974-07-16	OAK	BAL	W 4-3	8-9f ,S	1.2	0	0	0	0	4	0
7	1974-07-14 (1)	OAK	NYY	W 7-3	7-9f ,S	3.0	1	0	0	0	3	0
8	1974-06-02	OAK	MIL	W 6-4	8-9f ,S	1.1	4	2	2	0	0	0
9	1974-05-31	OAK	MIL	W 5-2	7-9f ,S	3.0	1	1	1	1	1	0
10	1974-05-11	OAK	MIN	W 4-1	6-9f ,S	3.2	1	0	0	0	3	0
11	1974-05-03	OAK	CLE	W 3-1	8-9f ,S	1.1	0	0	0	0	2	0
12	1974-04-16	OAK	CHW	W 4-3	8-9f ,S	1.2	1	0	0	0	3	0

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I love that Fingers had no walks in nine of the appearances