In baseball statistics, inherited runs allowed (denoted by IRA) is a measure of the effectiveness of a relief pitcher who enters a game with runners on base.
Definition: A relief pitcher is charged with an 'inherited run allowed' when he enters the game with a runner or runners on base and one or more of those runners scores a run while that relief pitcher is in the game. The pitcher is charged with one IRA for each such runner that scores.
Famous quotes containing the words inherited, runs and/or allowed:
“House and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 19:14.
“Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet to its god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)
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—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)