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Baseball fans of a pair of New York colleges watched their awful teams snap dreadful losing streaks against one another on Tuesday. The foes split a doubleheader to land their first wins of the year.
Lehman baseball entered the day riding a 42-game skid. Their last win came 700 days prior in 2023. Yeshiva baseball had more than doubled that unfortunate stat.
Yeshiva is a small Jewish university in New York City. It’s been in existence for more than 130 years and currently boasts an enrollment of about 6,500 students.
The school’s baseball team hadn’t won a game since February of 2022. It entered Tuesday’s matchup with Lehman on a 99-game losing streak. That number moved to 100 games when the Maccabees lost Game 1 of the doubleheader in extra innings.
The Lehman Lightning snapped their 42-game streak with the win. Yeshiva would do the same in Game 2.
Yeshiva baseball avoided unfortunate history.
The Maccabees started the season 0-19. They went 0-26 and 0-29 the two years prior after ending the 2022 campaign on a 26-game skid.
Fans of the program showed up to support the team in its attempt to end its losing ways. They went through a full range of emotion on Tuesday.
Lehman’s tying run is thrown out at home to end the top of the fifth (after being picked off and caught stealing for first two outs.) yeshiva still up 5-4 going to bottom 5
Fans going wild pic.twitter.com/TUEms2PVv3
— Michael Clair (@michaelsclair) April 8, 2025
Hope arrived after a number of defensive stands in Game 1. Disappointment followed when Yeshiva blew a late lead allowing Lehman to pick up an extra inning win. Game 2 finally brought the joy they’d been waiting for.
The Maccabees jumped out to a 7-2 lead across the first three frames. They extended that advantage to 9-3 before slamming the door shut with a 9-5 victory.
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY WINS! The 100 game losing streak is snapped! pic.twitter.com/vBMCF5pS8o
— Michael Clair (@michaelsclair) April 8, 2025
Yeshiva baseball’s losing streak ended at 100 games. They will not surpass the all-time record for consecutive college baseball losses. That title still belongs to the Caltech Beavers.
The Beavers lost 228 straight games over a decade-long span. Yeshiva wasn’t even halfway there!
The sports story of the day comes from D-III baseball.
Yeshiva University (99 straight losses) and Lehman College (42 straight losses) entered today’s doubleheader having lost a combined 141 straight games.
The result: Everyone left happy. pic.twitter.com/TLJCSk3olV
— Kendall Baker (@kendallbaker) April 9, 2025
Caltech ended that streak in similar fashion, picking up a win in Game 2 of a doubleheader. While that victory ended the brutal all-time losing skid, it would take four more seasons to end a conference losing streak that spanned nearly 30 years.
Yeshiva avoided unfortunate history by picking up its first win of the season. The Beavers still reign “supreme.” The Maccabees will now look to build on success in an upcoming series against SUNY Maritime College.