Cannot Access Function Of Extended Class

I have a linked list of objects of a class I created called BaseballPlayer. I also have a Fielder and Pitcher class that extends BaseballPlayer. The linked list and list nodes accept elements of type BaseballPlayer. I put into the linked list both Fielder objects and Pitcher objects. The Pitcher class has a method that returns a float variable that is only found in the Pitcher class called EarnedRunAverage. However, in my main program it won't let me access the method. It says: The method getERavg() is undefined for the type BaseballPlayer. It does however, let me access methods in the super-class BaseballPlayer.

Here is main code and the Pitcher class code.

ListNode p = list.getFirst().next;
while(p!=null){
if(p.player instanceof Fielder){
sortedFielders.append(Integer.toString(p.player.getNum()) +',');

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