An Actual Division I College Baseball Team Just Polished Off An 0-48 Season
For years now, I've been convinced that I once played for, by far, the worst college baseball team in America. Go look up the Emerson College baseball record between 2012-15. We won like six games in three years.
We were a joke. I was good, but, for the most part, we sucked. It's been nearly a decade, so I feel OK talking about it now.
You know when I knew we were screwed? When our skipper once told the team, on the bus to a game, that some Red Sox phenom named Mookie Betts "would be out of the league in two years."
That's a true story. He said that. We also once had a hitting coach whose best – and only – piece of advice was to swing harder. That was it. Just swing harder.
I'm telling you, we were laughably bad. I never, ever, in a million years, thought I'd find a team in America that was worse …
And then the 2024 Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks stepped on the field this spring, went 0-48 – including losses of 28-8, 23-8 and 19-0 – and gave me real hope that maybe, just maybe, I didn't play on the worst college baseball team in the history of time.
Maryland Eastern Shore baseball team pulls off impressive feat
I mean, it's truly impressive. Frankly, it's way more impressive to go 0-48 than 48-0. I feel like you HAVE to be throwing games at that point, right? Like, you almost have to throw a game or two to actually manage 0-48.
But really, none of these games were particularly close. Sure, you had a couple close calls – Navy kicked a game-winning field goal back on April 10 in a 13-10 win – but, for the most part, the Hawks were just massacred every single time they took the field.
- 20-1 loss to Merrimack
- 28-8 to Fareligh Dickinson (GREAT Cinderella team from a few years ago)
- 19-1 to Mount St. Mary's
- 23-8 to Wagner
- 20-8 to Le Moyne
- 18-0 to Sacred Heart
My God. Just soul-crushing. All of that added up to a nice team ERA of 11.32 and an opponent batting average of .342.
Three-forty-two!
Stunning. Anyway, nice work out of Maryland Eastern Shore. First winless D-1 baseball team since Coppin State back in 2009.
If the Hawks were anything like us, they got AFTER IT on Friday and Saturday nights after a big loss.
Our motto was … They may beat us on Saturday afternoons, but they can't hang with us on Saturday nights.
And, in the end, that was far more important.