High school baseball team wins 82-0; winning coach tried to stop the game
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High school baseball team wins 82-0; winning coach tried to stop the game
A high school baseball team in Massachusetts didn't just win against its opponent last week, it defeated the team by an outlandish 82-0 margin.
That's right — Old Rochester Regional had 82 runs over Notre Dame Cristo Rey, with 32 coming in the first two innings.
Despite the clear mismatch between two teams in different conferences, the game wasn't stopped. Although Old Rochester coach Steve Carvalho did say he attempted to stop the game and tried different tactics so his players wouldn't run up the score.
“I’m sick to my stomach over this,” Carvalho said (via the Boston Herald). “We really tried everything possible. We told the kids don’t take extra bases, no sprinting – we even had kids bunting and they couldn’t make the routine plays. We had kids hitting balls 300 feet and jogging to first.
“We even asked that they stop the game after four innings and they said no. Believe me, we exhausted all options in our power.”
While Old Rochester won by a large margin, Boston Herald notes the most one-sided victory in high school history came in 1928 after Atlantic won 109-0 over Griswold in Iowa.
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Dick Enberg would say...........Oh My!
they were probably tired from 82 trips around the diamond
That old rochester crowd is pretty full of itself just ask wareham high
The concern over running up the score is way over done. Players don't care. If they do, they should join the chess club instead.
The pitch count must have been brutal.
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I’m not sure how the winning team “Tried” not to score. Really simple don’t hit the freaking ball just bunt or swing at air to get it over with, the stats at that point are inflated anyways
Pitching was so bad that Giancarlo Stanton got two hits.
What should be remembered as well is that some of these high school players are hoping to get college scholarships in baseball, and of course the colleges look at the stats. The winning kids are more than happy to run up their stats for that.
Bottom line - the losing coach could have simply forfeited the game when it got out of hand, but for whatever reason he didn't.
Steve, those stats are meaningless and any scout would see that. Also 66-0 in Football is NOTHING compared to 82-0 in Baseball lol
With MLB scouts...of course it is meaningless. However for a college scholarship, stats are very important, especially because baseball isn't a big revenue producer like football or basketball.
That’s no fun for anyone. Everyone is a loser
mark
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Strongly disagree . I’ve been on both sides. Neither side is fun . It’s not sport when it’s so lopsided
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Indeed.
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
The "everybody gets a trophy" thing has been debunked many times. It was happening in the 70s, too.
And Nebraska, Oklahoma, and the rest definitely got ripped for running up the score. There was a huge fuss when Miami did it to Notre Dame, for example.
Also 66-0 in Football is NOTHING compared to 82-0 in Baseball lol
indeed.
at best it would be 246-0, at worst 492-0. it could never happen, though, because no Football game at any level could ever have the time for 82 scores.
Totally agree. Everybody likes to win but winning like that is not fun at all. Sure 15-0 would be fun but at some point it gets to be too much. Especially if you are beating up on the Bad News Bears.
It takes class to win and lose in a dignified manner, however when teams just lay down or give up it’s on them.
couple of interesting nuggets from this game
the coach of the winning squad tried schedule a different team called Notre Dame, but ended up playing the wrong one. how the hell that happens i have no idea. takes a special kind of imbecile to do something like that.
the losing team's coach allowed his pitcher to go all 8 innings and give up 92 hits. how the hell that happens i have no idea. takes a special kind of imbecile to do something like that.
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The kid had to have thrown close to 400 pitches. WTF. That coach should be shot.
We are taking two different things. Pro sports and D1 college you take your beatings and move on as the playing field is more level. We are taking about an unlevel playing field with teams having no business playing each other at the high school level. It’s not fun and I’m talking as an athlete who played at a high level. I never enjoyed padding my stats against an inferior opponent. I guess that’s where you and I differ. I hated playing against out manned teams and never liked piling on. That’s not sporting to me and not a challenge and it doesn’t make you better
mark
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In girls softball if they are trying not to run up the score the coach has the runner step off the base before the ball is pitched and the runner is called out. Our teams coach did it three times in one inning. Inning over. If the head coach wants to stop scoring he can. Base runners can pass the runner in front of him. Out. It can be done IF YOU WANT TO
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