Good point, i hadnt checked if pitchers are indeed being charged with the run, hopefully there are, if not due to the phantom error, as you say, skewed ERA's
Heres hoping this can be fixed but with SCEA having released the "big" patch for the year i think we might be stuck with it, which to me, while not a game killer at all, is very sad that the no.1 sports gaming franchise of all time would leave their product with such a glaring error for the whole year.
Who knows, time will tell.