Friday, July 18, 2014
Silliness of reconstructing innings
?Elmer Dressens earned a loss, without being charged an earned run. Even though he gave up TWO HR. That's being inconsistent.
How did he manage that? Well, he got an out, then an E6, and then an out. According to the rules, the inning "should" have stopped there. Everything after that is a freebie. But, why is that second out taken as a given that it would have happened regardless of the E6? After all, if the runner had made the second out, who knows what that third batter would have done. Anyway, take it for granted that he would have made the third out.
How about the next 4 batters? HR, single, HR, out. What do we do with them? Well, according to the rules, they don't exist. Not in this inning, not in a fictitious next inning. We simply erase them from existence. Why do we accept that the out after the E6 would have happened anyway, but then we don't accept that HR-1B-HR would have happened anyway?
The "earned" designation and the recreation of innings is perhaps the silliest official scoring rule in all of sports.
Think of "own goals", goals that are scored against your own team. They count against your goalie. They don't erase it as "unearned".
Just record what actually happened, and not just start pretending that some things get to be recreated in some fictitious world and some don't and then treat all that as some official record.
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