When analyzing a pitcher's statistics, some useful categories to consider include K / 9IP ( strikeouts per nine innings ), K / BB ( strikeouts per walk ), HR / 9, WHIP ( walks plus hits per inning pitched ) and OOPS ( opponent on-base plus slugging ).

* SVO — Save opportunity: When a pitcher 1 ) enters the game with a lead of three or fewer runs and pitches at least one inning, 2 ) enters the game with the potential tying run on base, at bat, or on deck, or 3 ) pitches three or more innings with a lead and is credited with a save by the official scorer

When pitchers are changed in the middle of an inning, and one or more errors have already occurred, it is possible to have a run charged as earned against a specific pitcher, but unearned to the team.

When St. Louis was trailing 3 – 1 with one out in the sixth inning of Game 7, Smith started a rally with a base hit to left field, eventually scoring the first of the team's three runs that inning.

When the Cardinals were trailing by ten runs during Game 7 on October 17, Smith flied out to right field while pinch-hitting in the sixth inning, marking the end of his playing career.

When Mantle came to bat in the eighth inning with McLain and the Tigers holding a 6-1 lead, McLain intentionally threw a soft pitch directly over home plate.

When the Sox scored two runs in the top of the tenth, Boston manager John McNamara chose to have Buckner take the field in the bottom of the inning instead of bringing Stapleton in as a defensive replacement for the ailing Buckner as he had in games one, two and five.

When he took the mound in the fifth inning on July 10, 1984, Gooden became the youngest player to appear in an All-Star Game.

When Los Angeles Angels rookie Bo Belinsky entered the final inning of his no-hitter in 1962, Baltimore Orioles outfielder Jackie Brandt passed him on the field as the teams changed sides.

When the DH spot next came up to bat in the 8th inning, Eric Chavez pinch-hit for Joba Chamberlain before Cody Eppley took the mound in the 9th inning.

When Gagné entered a game at Dodger Stadium, usually in the eighth or ninth inning with the Dodgers in the lead, the words " Game Over " would flash across the scoreboard and the PA system would play the song " Welcome to the Jungle " by Guns N ' Roses.

When the inning ended, O ' Neill was still being cheered.

When reconstructing an inning without errors or passed balls:

When David Ortiz's walk-off home run finally won it for the Red Sox in the 12th inning, Buck uttered " We'll see you later tonight ," alluding to the fact that the game had extended into the early morning.

When one was on TV, another would take over on radio, and the other would take a three inning break.

When Canham came to bat the following inning, Midland pitcher Carlos Hernandez threw a pitch that came close to Canham ’ s head, clearing the benches again and nearly provoking a fight between the teams.

When three outs are recorded in an inning during a team's turn at offense, it is said that " the side is retired.

When the player who led off the inning makes a second plate appearance, it is called " batting around.

( When the manager already plans to replace the pitcher in the next inning, the major downside of using a pinch hitter-namely that the player being replaced cannot re-enter the game-is taken away.

When the game finally did resume on June 23, it took only 18 minutes to complete, as Dave Koza of the PawSox drove in the winning run in the bottom of the 33rd inning.

When the Phillies benched Pete Rose in favor of Tony Pérez in Game 3, it ended a streak in which Rose played every inning of his 59 previous postseason games.

When one of the pitchers, Jesse Orosco, drew a walk in the fourteenth inning, Johnson followed with a three-run home run which led to a Mets win.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.