re: Baseball pitching - How is a Win determined?

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I understand that, but Avilan under no circumstances deserves or should be given a W for that performance. A rules a rule, but just dumb and not logical in this case

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That's not the entire rule. The scorer could have given the win to Carpenter if they wanted to, instead of Avilan, but probably didn't because Carpenter got the Save.

Rule 10.17(c)

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(c) The official scorer shall not credit as the winning pitcher a relief pitcher who is ineffective in a brief appearance, when at least one succeeding relief pitcher pitches effectively in helping his team maintain its lead. In such a case, the official scorer shall credit as the winning pitcher the succeeding relief pitcher who was most effective, in the judgment of the official scorer.

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Problem was, in this case, the only succeeding RP got the save, and you can't get a save AND a win. I honestly don't know if they can choose to give Carpenter the W rather than the SV in this case.



ETA: I remember sometime in the last few years a reliever getting shelled, then their team taking the lead back and ending up holding on to it, and the scorer gave a subsequent reliever the W for throwing a few scoreless innings.