* b. Although not an actual award, many baseball fans and experts call a pitcher who leads his league in wins, strikeouts, and ERA the Triple Crown winner.

Although Rand kept the ERA team together and developing new products, it was most interested in ERA's magnetic drum memory systems.

Although ERA plates are intended only to bulge following detonation, the combined energy of the ERA explosive, coupled with the kinetic or explosive energy of the projectile, will frequently cause explosive fragmentation of the plate.

Although he had a 2. 49 ERA, none of the Indians ' catchers could handle Wilhelm's knuckleball.

Although he received no decisions during his two appearances in the six-game series, Schilling's 1. 69 ERA and 19 strikeouts ( including the first 5 Braves hitters of Game 1, an NLCS record ) were enough to earn him the 1993 NLCS Most Valuable Player Award.

Although he maintained a winning record and a low ERA, his appearances were limited, as he could no longer recover quickly from pitching a game.

Although a two-time All-Star in the American Negro leagues, Dihigo's greatest season came in the Mexican League in, where he went 18-2 with a 0. 90 ERA as a pitcher, while winning the batting title with a. 387 average.

Although the Cubs continued losing, Smith finished with a career-best 1. 65 ERA — more than two points below the league average — and a career-best 1. 074 WHIP while leading the National League with 29 saves and 56 games finished.

Although pitchers seldom get credited with putouts, they are credited with their role in getting outs through various pitching statistics such as innings pitched ( a measure of the number of outs made by the pitcher, used in calculating his ERA ) and strikeouts.

Although his 1967 season was somewhat of a let down after his near Cy Young in 1966 ( he finished 16-13 with a 3. 04 ERA ), he went on a tear in September and nearly pitched the Twins to another World Series appearance-cruising to a 7-0 record with a 1. 51 ERA and 65 strikeouts in 65. 2 innings pitched.

Although he did not sign until September, he was able to get into 16 games ( going 5 – 6 with a 3. 72 ERA in 104 innings ) for the Little Falls Mets in the low A-ball New York-Penn League.

Although he was unhappy in a low-leverage bullpen role and asked to be traded, Aguilera in fact thrived as a reliever going 6 – 6 with a 2. 34 ERA, with 80 strikeouts and 7 saves in 36 appearances.

Although he got his wish and completed the season with the Twins as a starter, going 3 – 5 with a 3. 72 ERA and 3 complete games in 75 2 / 3 innings, he was shifted to the closer's role in and responded by saving 32 games for a team that went 74 – 88.

Although Aguilera would later state that the trade that brought him to Boston was the lowest point of his career, he would perform well for the AL East champion, going 2 – 2 with 20 saves and a 2. 67 ERA in 30 relief appearances.

Although he managed to achieve a 2. 87 ERA and 16 strikeouts in innings, the Mets lost both games he started and eventually lost the World Series 4 games to 1.

Although renamed Engineering Research and Application Ltd, and still primarily an R & D operation, ERA still did a small amount of race preparation.

Although Peavy would go only 11 – 14 with a 4. 09 ERA, he still managed to finish second in the National League in strikeouts with 215, one shy of both his 2005 league-leading total and of the 2006 NL strikeout leader, Aaron Harang who logged 32 more innings than Peavy.

Although he improved his ERA to 4. 85 and his BB / 9 to 6. 1 while increasing his K / 9 to 8. 7, McDowell was sent down to the Indians top farm club ( now the Jacksonville Suns ) at the end of June and spent the rest of the season there.

Although he only went 7 – 7, he had a 3. 83 ERA in twenty – seven games ( twenty – four starts ).

Although he allowed some unearned runs, Santos posted a 0. 00 ERA over his first 27. 1 innings in the majors, the longest such streak to start a career since Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1980 – 81 ( 34 innings ).

Although he pitched 20 more innings and had a lower ERA than in 2001, he won seven fewer games.

Although his statistics were fairly disappointing, finishing 11-25 with a 5. 37 ERA in the and seasons, Viola became a permanent fixture of the Twins ' starting staff for the next 7 seasons, picking up 112 of his 176 career wins.

Although the term " Unicode " had previously been used for other purposes, such as the name of a programming language developed for the UNIVAC in the late 1950s, and most notably a universal telegraphic phrase-book that was first published in 1889, Becker may not have been aware of these earlier usages, and he explained that " he name ' Unicode ' is intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding ".

Although they were forced to maintain a sharper watch, this activity enabled them to ride in and rack their broncs without any particular attention being paid them.

Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.

Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

Although there were no startling developments in shotgun design this year, a number of new models and variations of existing models did hit the market.

Although there were only four fluids tested, it was apparent that there were two distinct types.

Although the elections were for local officials, it was not necessary to conduct the elections so as to prevent parties from publicly identifying their candidates.

Although the monarch had frequently asserted that the elections were to be without party significance, his action was an implicit admission that party identifications were a factor.

Although Rhode Islanders were preparing for the state elections, they watched John Brown's trial with extreme interest.

Although we enjoyed our rounds of the government offices in Vientiane, with officials offering tea and pleasing conversation in French, we were getting nowhere.

Although federal and city narcotic agents sometimes worked together, Sokol continued, rivalries developed when they were `` aiming at the same criminals ''.

Although he later broke with the churches because he believed that they were insufficiently outspoken against social evils, he remained a devout Christian.

Although they " were expecting to see activity in the brain's reward centers ", based on the idea that " people perform altruistic acts because they feel good about it ", what they found was that " another part of the brain was also involved, and it was quite sensitive to the difference between doing something for personal gain and doing it for someone else's gain ".

The Turkish language and the Islamic religion were gradually introduced as a result of the Seljuk conquest, and this period marks the start of Anatolia's slow transition from predominantly Christian and Indo-European and Semitic-speaking, to predominantly Muslim and Turkish-speaking ( Although some ethnic groups such as Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Georgians retained Christianity and their native languages ).

Although the Indian and Greek concepts of the atom were based purely on philosophy, modern science has retained the name coined by Democritus.

Although Romanticism and Neoclassicism were philosophically opposed, they were the dominant European styles for generations, and many artists were affected to a greater or lesser degree by both.

Although Andean Amerindian peoples crafted ceremonial jewelry of gold and other metals the mineralizations of the Andes were first mined in large scale after the Spanish arrival.

Although at least three pads were planned, only two, designated A and B, were completed in October 1965.

Although the proposal seemed to have been approved, the plans of the British were thwarted by the uprising of Dost Muhammad's son Muhammad Akbar Khan, who defeated and annihilated the British-Indian garrison at Gandamak on its retreat from Kabul in January 1842.

Although some of his lands were restored to the control of his relatives, his safe return could not be arranged, and Hasan Ali Shah was forced to remain a permanent resident of India.