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earned run average
earned run av·er·age
(
plural
earned run av·er·ag·es
)
noun
Definition:
average earned runs allowed by a pitcher:
in baseball, the number of earned runs allowed by a pitcher every nine innings, used as a measure of the pitcher's performance
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