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Along the lines of unanswered runs... In a game tied at 4, Team A hits a home run, then adds 3 more runs to make the final score 8-4. Is the home run the "game-winning" home run? It was docked as being ambiguous because any of the last runs could have been the "game-winning" run. My...

Thanks for all the replies! Since I knew what it meant, I used it correctly, but I see that there are other (better) ways of more clearly stating what happened. Thanks again.

No. Your scenario is straightforward and self explanatory. Team A scores 4. Team B then scores 10. Game ends. How many unanswered points?

I am a sports journalist student and was docked for my use of "unanswered runs" in a graded exercise. The reason was over abiguity of the term. I believe it only has one definition but I don't know where to find it. My definition: The amount of runs/points a team scores since the other team...