Clipping:Stealing a base during an appeal
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| Date | Saturday, May 6, 1876 |
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| Text | [Boston vs. Mutual 4/25/1876] McGinley then hit hard to Hallinan, who stopped the ball, but did not field it in time, and Schafer ran for home and scored his run. While Hicks was appealing to the umpire McGinley stole to second... New York Clipper May 6, 1876 defining an earned run [from answers to correspondents] [question:] I hold that a batter making his first base on a clearn hit, even if he should steal second, third and home, has earned a run. Am I not right? [answer:] We count earned runs simply as a criterion of the pitching, not as that of the pitching and fielding combined. If a player earns a run as you describe, it is earned chiefly off the fielding, either from the inability of the catcher to throw swiftly and accurately to the bases, or some other such cause. But a run is not properly earned off the pitching unless it is secured by base-hits alone, without the assistance of stealing bases. A player makes his first by a safe hit, he is sent to his second by another such hit, and then a hit is made which easily gives the striker his first, and allows the base-runner on second to run home. This is a run earned off the pitching. New York Clipper May 13, 1876 |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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