In sports, they always say to play like it’s your last game. In 2020, the Miami Hurricanes baseball team learned this the hard way, when the season was canceled as it was seemingly just beginning. UM spent a week ranked No. 1 in the nation. They boasted arguably the best weekend starting rotation. And after opening the Atlantic Coast Conference season with a three-game sweep of Pittsburgh, the Canes looked to be finding their groove just in time for the thick of the schedule.
But between a midweek win at No. 12 Central Florida and a conference road series at Virginia Tech, Miami was faced was heartbreaking news: their promising season was being suspended immediately due to Covid-19.