Cedar Rapids Xavier senior Braylen Conlon is near the top of the three main pitching categories for the entire state of Iowa.

All first-team members were nominees for Player of the Year in that sport, and winners were announced at the All-State Awards ...

Skenes, the Pirates’ ace, might be the best pitcher in Major League Baseball. He is also the unluckiest.

Rodon struggled early, allowing a first-inning grand slam to Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo. Rodon left the 87 mph off-speed, ...

Bob Seymour’s two homers and six RBIs propelled the Bulls. Only Dylan Beavers’ eighth-inning home run to right field averted ...

Keep in mind that even one earned run can mean one-twentieth (or 0.05) of a run in ERA for a typical starting pitcher; five earned runs can mean as much as a quarter of a run (or 0.25).

The correlation between ERA and UERA was 0.36 — not overwhelming, but pretty strong. That means that pitchers who are good at preventing earned runs are also generally good at preventing unearned runs ...

SIERA is an ERA estimator that holds pitchers accountable for the types of batted balls they allow; SIERA relies heavily on a pitcher's strikeout%2C walk and ground-ball rates ...

Earned run average, abbreviated ERA, has long been one of baseball's most recognizable statistics, signifying the number of earned runs that a pitcher surrenders per nine innings. Major League ...