Daddycougar posted:Not sure if this is true, but I've heard that the runs not counting occurs when the error happens with 2 outs (error would've been the 3rd out). The reasoning behind that was the pitcher would be out of the inning so therefore doesn't count. I would really like to know if that was true or not.
The scorers job is to reconstruct the inning with the assumption that the errors and passed balls didn't happen. That is, what scoring was the pitcher responsible for in that inning? In the example above, the error didn't impact the scoring (didn't allow any unearned runs) since the runner was picked off the bases before he was involved in any scoring (e.g. he wasn't on base when the pitcher walked a run in).
Your 2-out scenario is one way that runs are unearned, but not the only way. If the lead-off batter reaches on error, then scores under any circumstances, that run is always going to be unearned.