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. 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 See all Example Sentences for earned run 

Word History

First Known Use

1871, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of earned run was in 1871

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“Earned run.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/earned%20run. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.

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earned run

noun
: a run in baseball that scores without benefit of an error
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