Clipping:Chadwick on scoring earned runs and stolen bases
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| Date | Saturday, November 8, 1890 |
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| Text | In regard to the record of runs earned off the pitching and those earned off the pitching and fielding combined, the rules should make [illegible] distinction, and the record of earned [illegible] limited to those off the pitching also. For instance, suppose the batsman leads off with a safe single, and steals second and third, and he is then sent home by a sacrifice fly ball to the deep outfield. Under the existing code this is recorded as an earned run, though only a single base hit has been made off the pitching. I established earned runs in my scoring record over twenty years ago, and did it for the purpose of obtaining a fair criterion of a pitcher's skill, based on the record of runs earned off his pitching by base hits, and by such hits only as are made before he has given the field a chance to put the side out. If the pitcher delivers three balls to the bat,a which successively afford three plain chances to put the side out, and the field fails to accept such chances, and then base hits are made off his pitching no runs can be charged to him as earned off his pitching, no matter if home runs are afterwards made; yet the existing code charges him with earned runs if earned runs are made solely by base-running unaided by but a single hit or a sacrifice. This is unjust to the pitcher, as the fault lies with the catcher's inability to throw well to base, or to the base player who fails to accept chances to put out runners properly. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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