# Baseball trivia

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-trivia/530697
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [February 27, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-trivia/530697 "2010-02-27T22:36:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-trivia/530697/1 "2010-02-27T22:36:04Z")

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I’ll start us off with a pretty easy one:

How can a pitcher be charged with an **unearned** run in an inning in which no errors occur?

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### Author: ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-trivia/530697/2 "2010-02-27T22:54:02Z")

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Passed ball/wild pitch

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### Author: ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-trivia/530697/3 "2010-02-27T23:00:25Z")

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> [@5\_time\_champ](#):
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> Passed ball/wild pitch

A: Passed balls only–runs resulting from wild pitches are still earned