Yeshiva University David H. Zysman Hall. Photo: Beyond My Ken/Wikimedia Commons

The baseball team of Yeshiva University in New York City on Tuesday night snapped a 100-game losing streak dating back to 2022 when it beat Bronx’s Lehman College in a doubleheader.

The Lehman Lightning team came into Tuesday night’s game at Naimoli Family Baseball Complex in New Jersey with its own 42-game losing streak going back to 2023. YU and Lehman College had the two longest losing streaks in college baseball heading into their showdown.

Lehman was the first to end its losing streak when it won the first game of the night 7-6 with extra innings, which pushed YU’s losing streak from 99 to 100 games. The Maccabees held a 5-4 lead in the top of the fifth inning but ultimately lost to their rivals.

However, the Washington Heights Jewish school came back to put a stop to their streak, and a 0-18 all-time record against Lehman, with a 9-5 victory in the second game of the night. The pitcher who closed out the game, Noah Steinmetz, is the younger brother of Orthodox Jewish Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Jacob Steinmetz and son of YU’s basketball coach Elliot Steinmetz.

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY WINS! The 100 game losing streak is snapped! pic.twitter.com/vBMCF5pS8o

— Michael Clair (@michaelsclair) April 8, 2025

Only two players on the current roster of the YU Maccabees have ever been on the field before for a win, according to Major League Baseball (MLB). Lehman’s head coach, Chris Delgado, has never led his team to a victory and was a player on the Lehman roster the last time the baseball team won a game, MLB.com noted,

“I really appreciate [the fans who came out],” Delgado reportedly said. “The cold weather was not our best friend today, for the fans and for the players. It’s definitely a sense of relief, and I feel happy for this side and for Yeshiva as well. It’s a long time coming. I feel like it was a successful day for both programs and something both programs needed to be able to move forward from the failures in the past.”