Clipping:Chadwick critiques the ERA rule
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| Date | Wednesday, July 17, 1889 |
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| Text | [from Chadwick's column] The existing scoring rule governing earned runs says:-- “An earned run shall be scored every time the player (of the batting side) reaches the home base, unaided by errors, before chances have been offered to retire the side.” The rule should read:-- “an earned run shall be charged against a pitcher every time a runner reaches home base by the aid of base hits only, before chances have been offered off the pitching to retire the batting side for a blank.” As it is now, everything counts as ending in earning a run except positive fielding errors, such as a wild throw, a dropped fly ball or a muffed ground ball or thrown ball, wild pitches and base on balls, together with unaccepted chances, not being counted in the error column. Under such an erroneous code of scoring rules is it surprising that the existing pitchers' averages of earned runs should be entirely worthless as a criterion of a pitcher's skill? |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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