Game: VS Redwood High School (6)

I told Noah my concerns as we took a seat in the dugout.

Noah just shrugged. "You can't be good all the time. Ya know how I told you that succeeding at the plate three out of ten appearances makes someone an excellent batter? Well for pitchers, they'll come across rough starts every now and then. If superstars didn't, then we would have quite a few pitchers with ERA's under one."

I waited a second as we watched Daniel stepped up to the plate, before asking, "What does ERA stand for?"

Noah let out a laugh. "Sorry, I keep forgetting. ERA stands for Earned Run Average. Basically how many runs given up per nine innings."

"Shouldn't it be seven innings?"

Noah shrugged. "It could. Some high schools do. But when colleges start scouting you, they'll do it by nine like a normal game. They play nine innings in college ball so why would they want to know what your ERA is over seven innings?"

"Oh." I didn't understand, but I didn't want to continue this conversation so I let it be.