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A good example of how this works is last Sunday's White Sox vs. Twins game. The first inning played out as follows:
Shannon Stewart: Stewart singled to left center.
Luis Castillo: Castillo safe at first on Buehrle's throwing error, Stewart to second.
Mike Redmond: Redmond singled to right, Stewart scored, Castillo to third.
Torii Hunter: Hunter safe at first on shortstop Uribe's fielding error, Castillo scored, Redmond to second.
Michael Cuddyer: Cuddyer singled to left, Redmond to third, Hunter to second.
Justin Morneau: Morneau hit sacrifice fly to left, Redmond scored, Hunter to third.
Rondell White: White doubled to deep right, Hunter scored, Cuddyer to third.
Tony Batista: Batista doubled to left, Cuddyer and White scored.
Juan Castro:Castro singled to right, Batista to third.
Shannon Stewart:Stewart singled to center, Batista scored, Castro to second.
Luis Castillo: Castillo struck out on foul tip.
Mike Redmond: Redmond flied out to shallow center.
In that inning, the Twins scored seven runs off of Mark Buehrle. However, Castillo's first AB should have been out #1, but an error was made. The Redmond AB drove in an earned run, since Stewart was the one who scored, and he had reached on a single. Hunter's AB should have been the second out, but, again, an error let him reach. The Castillo run did NOT count as earned, because he reached on an error. The Morneau sacrifice fly would have been the third out. Therefore, the run that scored on the sac fly did not count as earned, nor did any of the other runs. Because of this, Buehrle managed to give up seven runs in the first inning, and only one of them was earned.
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