earned run
noun
: a run in baseball that scores without benefit of an error before the fielding team has had a chance to make the third putout of the inning
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Over his final 15 starts, Snell would only allow 14 earned runs on 38 hits across 85 innings.
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Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Three Yankee starters hurled complete-game wins, with each giving the Dodgers only one earned run.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Clase permitted an almost unimaginably stringent five earned runs all season.
—Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
Roughly six months after surgery to address his arm aneurysm, Beck allowed one earned run in 3 ⅓ innings, punching out four while walking two.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2024
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Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Three Yankee starters hurled complete-game wins, with each giving the Dodgers only one earned run.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Clase permitted an almost unimaginably stringent five earned runs all season.
—Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
Roughly six months after surgery to address his arm aneurysm, Beck allowed one earned run in 3 ⅓ innings, punching out four while walking two.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2024
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“Earned run.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/earned%20run. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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