March 24, 1999
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - Oklahoma's baseball team fell to 16-11 overall Wednesday night after the fourth-ranked Stanford Cardinal downed the Sooners 5-1 at the Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City. Senior right-hander Jared Hoerman took the loss for OU, his second straight, and is now 4-2 overall. Freshman right-hander Mike Wodnicki picked up the win for the Cardinal, improving to 2-0 this season. The start of the game was pushed back 25 minutes after a brief shower pushed through the metro area. The Cardinal improved to 17-8 with the win.
Stanford jumped out to an early 1-0 lead on OU in the first inning before using a four run sixth to pull away from the Sooners. The key hit of the ballgame was a three-run home run by left fielder Nick Day that put the Cardinal up 5-0. OU answered in the bottom half of the sixth with a Casey Bookout homerun, but could not manage anything else. Bookout's shot was his seventh of the season.
"We couldn't get anything going tonight," Bookout said. "Usually we can string together a couple of hits here and there, but we never got comfortable tonight. We hit a couple of balls very hard, but we could never get two or three of them to drop in."
Hoerman gave up five runs on six hits in six innings of work while Wodnicki gave up just the lone run on five hits in six innings. Hoerman struck out three and walked three while Wodnicki struck out three and walked two.