Last week, two high school baseball teams in Massachusetts that had no business playing against each other did just that. The result was a final score of 82-0.

You read that correctly. As The Boston Herald reports, Old Rochester put up 82 runs against Notre Dame Cristo Rey, who got no-hit in the largest loss in state history.

So when you read that kind of score, it's instinctive to think "why didn't the coach take his foot off the gas?" Well, according to him, he tried. Coach Steve Carvalho tried really hard, and he's just as upset about this as anyone else.

"I'm sick to my stomach over this," Carvalho told 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."

The fact is, the game was just wildly mismatched.

Here's what you need to know about how crazy this game was:

Old Rochester's coach tried to schedule a different school called Notre Dame
They scheduled two games, not one
Old Rochester's pitcher threw a no-hitter
He also went 15-of-17 batting
Cristo Rey's pitcher gave up 92 hits and pitched all eight innings
Cristo Rey committed 22 errors
The 82-0 score is not the most lopsided score in high school baseball history (it is actually 109-0)
The two schools do plan to play again, but this time Old Rochester plans to play with their Junior Varsity players
If you're curious about the full box score, so was I. But every site that aggregates high school scores seems to have this game scrubbed. It's perfectly understandable why. But the prospect of seeing what an 82-0 box score looks like is extremely enticing for morbid reasons.

Well, the only good thing to come out of it is that Notre Dame lost.

The Cristo Rey pitcher pitched 8 innings? IMHO a highschool pitcher has no business throwing that many pitches in a 82 run loss. He must have thrown 500 or more pitches. They need to shut down that program.

If they tried hard enough they could have just hit the ball and not ran to first. Sounds like a cover up to me.

You tell your kids to stand there and look at three pitches....any reasonable umpire is going to call those three pitches strikes regardless of where they cross the plate.

That is what I was thinking. My son’s team did that one game this year and they were only winning by 25 runs.

After 20 runs the strike zone should've been nose to toes&box to box.

A co-worker told me yesterday that over the weekend his 10 year old son threw 95 pitches in 2 games on Saturday. The very next day he threw 45. Most if these travel tournaments go by innings pitched not the number of pitches. It's insane.

And that is the reason 12 year olds are having Tommy John surgery. That is the coach and the parent’s fault. Bad parenting.

As a parent, I monitored and maintained my own pitch count of both of my boys anytime they were on the mound. I cannot count the number of times, I've walked to the dugout and told the coaches what my son's pitch count was and to pull him after he finishes the inning or "if youre planning on using him tomorrow, dont let him go past XX today". Throwing 95 on a Saturday and then another 45 on a Sunday is ridiculous at this point in the travel ball season for an 18 yr old, let alone a 10 year old. That's just crazy and a sure way to injure a young arm. Bad coaching and bad parenting.