Baseball scoring question: Blown save

How's that work? Not saying you're wrong, but just wondering for my own sense of knowledge.

Let's say the Mets are up 6-4, and Pedro Feliciano comes up in the seventh and gives up a three-run jack. Is he credited with a blown save?

 

Yes.
Today's Rays-Marlins box. Josh Johnson goes 7, leaves with 4-3 lead. Nunez gives up a run in the 8th.



Johnson 7.0 6 3 3 3 7 0 2.67
Nunez (BS, 2) 1.0 2 1 1 0 1 1 3.63



Leo Nunez now has six blown saves in his career --- and NO saves.
Makes sense, huh?

 

Yes, you can actually have two or three or more blown saves in a game.

So Aaron Heilman and Kevin Gregg could both get blown saves in the save game.

 

If Nunez is a career setup guy, the stat makes sense. But again, the terminology does not.

 

If you enter the game in a save situation - no matter what inning - and the other team ties it when you're on the hill, you get a Blown Save.

 

I think the most idiotic rule in baseball is that a pitcher who blows a save can get a win. Happened the other night with the Halos and it's just a dumb rule.

 

So who would you give the win to if a guy blows a lead in the top of the 9th and his team wins in the bottom of the 9th?

 

A guy can give up nothing but one unearned run and blow a save. He shouldn't be able to get the win?

 

He could also come in with first and third, no out and give up the tying run on a double play or a sac fly and get a blown save.

 

Related topic: Is it just me, or is AP pissing anyone else off by sticking stuff like this in the basic (not expanded) box scores:

Chicago White Sox
Buehrle 7 12 1 1 0 3
Dotel H,8 1 1 1 1 0 2
Jenks, BS, 1-11; L, 0-2 1 3 2 2 0 0

Not only are stats like "Holds" and "Blown Saves" bogus to many fans, they foul up the box score tabs completely, and are a true pain in the rear on deadline.

I also don't need to see the number of saves-number of chances (or, in the example above, number of "blown" saves-number of save chances) in the box score. Just give me how many saves a pitcher has, or his win-loss record.

 

Don't care as long as it's not a -3, which I have to skip when I find-and-replace to change to /3 and then fix fractions.

 

If we're going to start being all uppity about what stats are useful, Wins Losses and Saves are all on the chopping block.