Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, too much is made of LoB, and enough is made of the ratio of LoB:RS. Yes, I've been thinking this like, forever. An inning in which you score eight runs, but leave three on base, is much different from an inning where you score zero runs and leave three on base. An inning has to end some time, and it's not necessarily a mark of some kind of failure if not every runner scores.