Even good hitters go 0-for-4 in a game sometimes. Same with 0-for-5, and in rarer occurrences, 0-for-6. Sometimes, hitters go 0-for-whatever but still reach base with a walk. None of that is ideal, but it happens. Then there’s going 0-for-8 without reaching base at all. That is what happened to the following players.
Wally Pipp managed to go 0-for-8 in a 16-inning game against the White Sox on July 9, 1921. He was hitting in the sixth spot and had the likes of Babe Ruth and Home Run Baker hitting in front of him. The Yankees’ 1-5 hitters reached base a combined 12 times that day.