HBT: How do you get a save in a 21-8 win?

The outcome of last night?s Mariners-Rangers game was never in doubt. After posting 16 runs between the send and third innings, it was all over put the paperwork. Yet, because a pitcher finished the game with three full innings, we get this in the box score:

Yep,?Hisashi Iwakuma gets the save. In a game in which he pitched poorly and which needed no saving whatsoever.

The save is just the worst, least-illuminating stat ever. One that has changed the way in which the game is played as opposed to merely describing what occurs. Or, in this case, is handed out for no reason whatsoever.

To blazes with it, I say. Let it hang out with the Game Winning RBI in the pile of ?obsolete metrics which tell us nothing useful about the game.?

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