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"No runs, no hits and no errors." I heard this phrase at shift change from one firefighter who was being relieved by another. The firehouse context of the phrase was that there was no information to pass along because the member's company did not respond to any alarms or deliver any service during its shift.
The phrase "No runs, no hits and no errors" comes from baseball, a sport that has been called "a game of statistics." Runs, hits and errors are measurements of the performance and quality of the team members that is often heard at baseballs' "shift change," called an inning. Runs, hits and errors represent a synopsis of the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of ...