⚾ Stat of the Day: What happens when The Benchwarmers meet The Bad News Bears? It seems both teams get to enjoy a sweet—but fleeting—taste of victory.
On Tuesday, a pair of D3 college baseball teams from New York City came into a doubleheader having lost a combined 141 consecutive games. But by the end of the day, the two longest active losing streaks in college baseball had finally been snapped.
Stoppable force🤝movable object: Yeshiva University, a Modern Orthodox Jewish school, entered Tuesday’s doubleheader having lost their previous 99 games, while opponent Lehman College was riding their own 42-game losing streak.
While futile, neither program is even close to the WOAT. Fellow D3 baseball resident Caltech lost 228 consecutive games between 2003-2013—and also went 29 straight years without winning a single conference game (1988-2017).
🤔 Did You Know? During races, F1 drivers typically lose around 4.5–6.5 lbs due to sweating. Drivers are weighed before and after each race to ensure they meet the minimum weight requirement to drive.
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