A high school baseball game's 82-0 final score in Massachusetts left the winning coach sleepless over the biggest blowout in the state's history.
"I'm sick to my stomach over this," Old Rochester High School baseball coach Steve Carvalho said of his Division 3 team's April 14 win over Division 4 Notre Dame Cristo Rey, according to 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 the score is staggering, Iowa saw a bigger margin in 1928, when Atlantic beat Griswold 109-0, the Herald noted.
The Massachusetts game took place because of a scheduling error, USA Today reported. Needing to fill out his schedule, Carvalho added Notre Dame Cristo Rey, thinking it was a similarly named school that made it to the state tournament. Instead, the school he ended up traveling to was much smaller.
"We never should have been playing that team and I take full responsibility for putting them on the schedule," Carvalho said, according to South Coast Today.
He didn't realize his mistake until his team arrived to the game.
"I introduced myself to the head coach and we talked a little about last year’s tournament and that’s when I found out there were two Cristo Rey High Schools and his school was the other one," Carvalho said, according to South Coast Today.
The teams are scheduled to meet again on May 19, when Carvalho said his varsity team won't play.
"I don't have a problem with Old Rochester at all, they are a program we're trying to be like," Cristo Rey athletic director Georgie Rosario said, according to the Herald. "We're a very young team that graduated seven seniors year from last year. We have no seniors, two juniors and the rest of the team is freshmen and sophomores."
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