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  • n  (baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched
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  • Pitching, hitting Faulkner does it all
    The numbers don’t quite do Rebecca Faulkner justice. And that’s perhaps the most impressive part of her 2013 season. Any other player in San Mateo county would give anything to say they recorded 21 wins in the circle with a 0.84 earned run average and 185 strikeouts to just 14 walks.
    June 12, 2013 - San Mateo Daily Journal

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