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E.R.A.
Sport: Baseball and softball
What it means: Not the un-ratified amendment, this E.R.A. stands for 'earned-run average', one of the primary statistics for pitchers. It measures how many earned runs a pitcher gives up, projected over all nine innings of a game. Therefore, a lower E.R.A is more desirable.
For example, if a pitcher gave up three earned runs (i.e. not scored as the result of errors or scored by runners inherited from the last pitcher) over six full innings (18 outs), then his E.R.A. for that game would be 4.50.
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Volume 128, Number 23, May 5, 2000
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