4.55
Supposing that all four runs were earned runs and it is a nine inning game, the ERA is 4.5... Earned runs divided by innings pitched multiplied by the the total innings of a standard game (4/8 * 9 = 4.5)
5.14
In MLB, for pitchers that threw at least 162 innings in a season, that would be Dutch Leonard who had an ERA of 0.96 for the Boston Red Sox in the 1914 season. Leonard pitched 224 2/3 innings and gave up 24 earned runs. For pitchers that threw at least 100 innings in a season it is Tim Keefe who had an ERA of 0.86 for the Troy Trojans in 1880. Keefe pitched 105 innings and gave up 10 earned runs.
A pitcher can get a loss no matter if the runs are earned or not. This statistic is tracked for the purpose of calculating a pitchers ERA or earned run average it really has nothing to do with a pitchers win loss record.
The Triple Crown is awarded to a Major League Baseball player who is ranked first in three major categories. For hitters it is batting average, home runs and runs batted in. For pitchers it is earned run average, wins and strikeouts.
A hurler is a slang term for a pitcher in baseball. ERA stands for Earned Run Average and is a statistic for pitchers that shows the number of 'earned' runs a pitcher allows for every nine innings. An earned run is a run that is scored without the help of an error or passed ball. One might think that the earned run average of a pitcher is similar to that of the batting average of a hitter.
Don Drysdale gave up 17 and Claude Osteen gave up 12.
A good batting average for a pitcher would be .200. Pitchers rarely hit home runs and drive in runs. No one with an average of .200 would be a designated hitter. Most designated hitters are power hitters that knock in a lot of runs.
ERA means Earned Run Average. It is a statistic used for pitchers to calculate how many earned runs the pitcher allows on average over 9 innings (27 outs) pitched
it does not as any runs scoring as a result of a passed ball are unearned and so do not count towards the pitcher earned run average
.30
1) Frank Tanana gave up 7 home runs to McGwire and 1 to Aaron. 2) Charlie Hough gave up 3 home runs to McGwire and 1 to Aaron. 3) Don Sutton gave up 2 home runs to both McGwire and Aaron.