Sentence examples for the first earned from inspiring English sources

Blum led off the fifth with a homer to right, the first earned run that Cain allowed in 14 innings.

Osterman gave up two runs, the first earned runs allowed by an American pitcher in these Games, while striking out nine Japanese batters in five innings.

Michael McKenry drove in the first earned run allowed by Aroldis Chapman this season with a double in the 10th inning, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Cincinnati Reds, 5-4, on the road on Thursday night.

Although a throwing error by Sasaki contributed heavily to the two-run comeback, one of the runs was earned -- the first earned run against Sasaki, the Mariners' closer, in 21 appearances this season.

Both "Native Speaker" and "A Gesture Life" received almost unanimously good reviews and sold well besides; the first earned him a job as head of the writing program at Hunter College, the second a professorship at Princeton.

Vernon Wells's run-scoring single with two outs in the first inning produced the first earned run off Greinke (5-0) Septembert September, a span of six starts.

Andrew Jacobson hit Meram with an elbow at the end of the first, earning himself a yellow, yet Meram did exactly the same in retaliation at the beginning of the second with no card earned.

Ramiro Mendoza (6-2), who relieved Clemens to start the sixth, earned the victory with two scoreless innings.

Paul Quantrill (2-3), who pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth, earned the victory.

Piazza, who had his own curtain call in the fifth, earned another in the seventh.

Schmidt had thrown 78 pitches through four inning, and his first 26 in the fifth earned him only two outs.