diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index f361fdcf002..bc20db67121 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -292,6 +292,9 @@ Optimizations
 * GITHUB#12100: WordBreakSpellChecker.suggestWordBreaks now does a breadth first search, allowing it to return
   better matches with fewer evaluations (hossman)
 
+* GITHUB#13582: Stop requiring MaxScoreBulkScorer's outer window from having at
+  least INNER_WINDOW_SIZE docs. (Adrien Grand)
+
 Changes in runtime behavior
 ---------------------
 
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/MaxScoreBulkScorer.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/MaxScoreBulkScorer.java
index f250abfbcb9..bce02cbdae6 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/MaxScoreBulkScorer.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/MaxScoreBulkScorer.java
@@ -271,11 +271,6 @@ final class MaxScoreBulkScorer extends BulkScorer {
       windowMax = (int) Math.min(windowMax, upTo + 1L); // upTo is inclusive
     }
 
-    // Score at least an entire inner window of docs
-    windowMax =
-        Math.max(
-            windowMax, (int) Math.min(Integer.MAX_VALUE, (long) windowMin + INNER_WINDOW_SIZE));
-
     return windowMax;
   }