earned run

[ urnd-ruhn ]

nounBaseball.
  1. a run yielded by and charged to a pitcher in which no error, interference, or other misplay by any player was involved. Abbreviation: ER

Origin of earned run

1
An Americanism first recorded in 1875–80

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