earned run average
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- noun
- /ˈɜrnəd rʌn ˈævərɪdʒ/
- Specialized
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- They've allowed more stolen bases than all but one AL squad, and they're eighth in the AL in team earned run average.
- pitcher's earned run average
- earned run average this season
- lowest earned run average
Examples
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In addition to tying a major league record for consecutive victories by a rookie at the start of the season, Valenzuela, during that streak, tossed five shutouts, completed seven games, and compiled an earned run average of 0.50.
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ERA refers to lifetime earned run average.
Academic text (1991) -
ERA, the pitcher's lifetime earned run average through the 1987 season, is employed as the single best measure of pitching performance.
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He also had 436 strikeouts and a 4.07 career earned run average.
Blog text (20) -
PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): Bill Swift finished the 1992 season with an earned run average of 2.08, the lowest of any pitcher in the National League.
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He was 7-2 overall and had a 1.38 earned run average as a junior and was named the CCAA Co-Pitcher of the Year.
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Affeldt, 33, had a 2.70 earned-run average in 63 1/3 innings this year for the World Series champions.
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But Vazquez was decent for three years with the Chicago White Sox, working 200 innings each season, with 200 strikeouts twice and an overall 4.40 earned run average.
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He finished the season with an earned run average of 3.50, which ranked him among the top pitchers in the league.
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The team's success can be attributed to their ace, who has an impressive earned run average of just 2.85 this year.
Synonyms
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A number showing how many earned runs a pitcher gives up on average per nine innings
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase transparently combines 'earned' + 'run' + 'average', so a learner who knows the words can infer it refers to an average related to runs that are considered 'earned' rather than unearned. However, the exact baseball-specific sense and calculation (e.g. per nine innings and the technical distinction between earned vs. unearned runs) require sport-domain knowledge, so the meaning is not fully derivable from the constituents alone.
Etymology
Earned run average is a baseball number that comes from a simple picture: you count the runs a pitcher is really to blame for — the earned run — and turn that into a single number, the average, for a full game. So it shows how many 'earned runs' a 'pitcher' would allow over 'nine innings', which makes it easy to compare pitchers.