I saw this go out the other day and thought it was a huge joke. I never heard of Maryland Eastern Shore and more importantly, I never considered the possibility that a division 1college baseball team could lose 54 games in a row.
But they did and this happened and it’s a very real story:
Alexa
0-54 probably gets you fired from most college baseball programs but not the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. And that’s simply because losing 54 in a row is just as difficult as winning 54 in a row.
At least that’s what I say to myself gambling on the NFL. Going 0-6 on back to back Sundays is actually pretty impressive when you think about it. The simple probability on that is basically 1 in 4,000, which seems super unlikely. So when it happens, you just have to chalk it up to the gambling gods getting greedy with your action.
I would say the same thing if I was the head baseball coach at UMES. I’d be spinning it to the Athletic Director like we’re actually on a hot run right now because nobody’s ever been this cold for this long. And in the grand scheme of sports records and history, we seek to recognize the unique and incredible. So in that mindset, it’s really an unbelievable accomplishment to lay 54 straight eggs in division 1 baseball. Chicago State was never even that bad and I think their head coach got paid by the loss at one point.
Anyways I pulled the stats so you don’t have to and they’re incredible. Last year was a full 0-48 game season where the best pitcher on the team had an 8.33 ERA for a staff averaging 11.3 runs per game.
- Opposing batters hit .375 off the #1 starter.
- They surrendered 78 home runs in 48 games.
- No one pitched 20+ innings with a WHIP under 2.000
I can keep going but don’t want to risk a seasonal depression flare up as the numbers are actually kinda sad. Especially once you start realizing there are young men voluntarily wearing that uniform and taking bus rides and trying to win baseball games. There’s actually guys that want to be there and try hard and play this game. That’s fucking crazy on so many levels that now I’m kinda interested in following their season.
I noticed they play Central Connecticut State a couple times later in the season. Interesting enough I got absolutely fucking shelled by CCSU the weekend after we beat LSU in 2009. Kinda funny but then our RPI dropped from like 17 to 77 overnight and nobody talked to me for the rest of spring break. That turned out to be a pretty sad season for me personally that sometimes I’ll remember at the worst times. Like sitting in traffic or trying to fall asleep or when I’m marinating a pork shoulder. The memories of me blowing games and letting down my teammates starts creeping in and it blows.
So hopefully none of these pitchers develop trauma over being the worst college baseball team of all time.
That would suck way more than going 0-54.