May 15, 2000
San Francisco, Calif. - #2 Stanford (40-12) reached the 40-victory mark for the sixth straight season with a 12-6 win over USF (26-33) in a non-conference game at Benedetti Diamond. Justin Wayne earned the victory to improve to 11-3 as he set a new career-high for victories in a season. Wayne tossed only the first three innings but was the pitcher of record due to a predetermined pitch count. Edmund Muth hit his team-leading 16th home run of the season, a three-run shot over the right field wall in the sixth inning, to break open what had been only a 6-4 Cardinal lead. John Gall tied a Pac-10 record when he hit the 75th double of his career in the eighth inning of today's contest. Jeff Bruksch shut out the Dons and struck out five over the final 3.1 innings to earn his 10th save of the year. Bruksch becomes only the second player in Cardinal history to record 10 saves in a season and is now just three shy of the school record of 13 set by Steve Chitren in 1987.
The Cardinal will travel to Nevada on Tuesday (2 pm) before returning to Sunken Diamond for a key Pac-10 series against UCLA this Friday-Sunday (6 pm, 1 pm, 1 pm). UCLA (15-5 Pac-10) entered the day one-half game ahead of both Stanford and Arizona State in the Pac-10 standings. Arizona State finishes its Pac-10 regular season schedule at Arizona this Friday-Sunday.
STANFORD 2 2 0 2 0 3 1 2 0 -- 12 11 2 USF 1 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 -- 6 13 3
BATTERIES: Stanford - Wayne, Sager (4), Bruksch (6) and Alvarado, USF - Perio, Herbert (6), Mooers (8), Moore (9) and Guerra, Jimenez (8). WIN - Wayne (11-3), LOSS - Perio (7-6), SAVE - Bruksch (10).
HR'S: Stanford - Bruntlett (2nd, 1 on in 2nd), Muth (16th, 2 on in 6th), Topham (4th, solo in 8th), USF - Hurtado (3rd, 1 on in 6th). T - 3:26, A - 686.