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It is very hard to score 49 runs, 22 in one inning, no matter who is pitching. Line drives go right at people, you miss a pitch and pop it up, you hit a hard grounder to first. You could normally bring in aunt Sally and still get 3 outs eventually, before 20 runs. I suspect a lot more errors than were recorded, and an unusual amount of luck.

My freshman year, we started 6 freshmen on a Division I team, and got beat a lot, so I saw it from the Kentucky State side, but even on our worst days, we never lost by more than 10 or 12 runs. There are times in a double header where you lose by 10 and come back and win the second game. And we played some Div. 2 and Div. 3 schools, and the difference is not that great. Some of the D2 schools were very good. We also played Class A minor league teams, and the difference was not that great, except they had better pitching.