June 20, 2002
at Omaha, NE
2002 College World Series
Stanford's season ends with a 47-18 record, while Texas advances to the CWS title game (Saturday, June 22, 12:30 pm, CDT) and improves to 56-15Stanford has advanced at least as far as its bracket final in each of its last five College World Series appearances (1997, '99, 2000, '01, '02) and nine times in school historyStanford and Texas have played 11 times in the last two seasons with the Cardinal winning six of the 11 games ... Texas won three of the five games this season, including a pair of one-run CWS games (8-7, June 18; 6-5, June 20) ... Stanford won two-of-three games in a regular season series at Stanford from March 28-30 (7-6, 10 inn.; 0-2, 10 inn.; 7-2) ... In 2001, Stanford won four-of-six games played between the teams, including two-of-three in an NCAA Regional at Stanford (3-4; 10-9, 10 inn.; 4-3) to advance to a Super Regional ... The two victories both came in a doubleheader on the final day of the 2001 Regional as Stanford swept a Regional doubleheader to advance in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history and ended the Longhorns' season ... Stanford leads the all-time series, 13-11-1Stanford won 11 of its last 13 games and finished with a 7-2 postseason recordStanford's all-time CWS record stands at 33-24 (.579) and its all-time postseason record to 103-51 (.659)Eight of Stanford's nine postseason games were decided by either one or two runs ... Stanford was 2-2 in the four one-run games and 4-0 in the four two-run gamesStanford finished its season 14-5 against ranked opponentsStanford had its string of three consecutive 50-plus win seasons snappedJeremy Guthrie finished his 2002 season with a 13-2 record and a 2.51 ERA with 136 strikeouts in 157.2 innings pitched ... The 157.2 innings pitched set a new single-season school record, while the 136 strikeouts (tied for 6th on Stanford's single season listJeremy Guthrie lost his first career postseason game and now stands 6-1 all-time in postseason actionJeremy Guthrie had won seven consecutive starts prior to being charged with the loss tonightJeremy Guthrie had won 18 of his previous 19 decisions prior to tonightJeremy Guthrie had thrown six complete games in his last eight startsJeremy Guthrie threw at least 6.0 in all 20 of his starts this seasonJeremy Guthrie's career statistics after two seasons at Stanford: 26-6, 2.65 ERA, 291.2 IP, 264 SOJeremy Guthrie's 26 career wins ranks tied for eighth all-time in victoriesSam Fuld (2-5) finished the season with 110 hits to set a new Stanford single-season record, breaking the record previously co-held by Mike Dotterer (1981) and Troy Paulsen (1990) ... Fuld had a triple in the first inning and a bunt single in the 9thSam Fuld finished his 2002 season with a .375 batting averageSam Fuld finishes his first two seasons on top of Stanford's all-time batting average list with a .367 career batting averageSam Fuld finished the season with a team-leading 38 multiple-hit gamesSam Fuld has a .469 (15-32) average in eight career CWS games and hit .421 (8-19) in the 2002 CWSJeremy Guthrie and Sam Fuld both earned First Team All-American honors by three different organizationsChris O'Riordan finishes his Stanford career ranked among Stanford's all-time leaders in batting average (.352, 7th), doubles (49, 9th-T) and hits (262, 10th)Ryan Garko (0-3 tonight) is hitting .462 (12-26) in eight career CWS gamesChris Carter (2-4, 2B, HR, RBI) extended his career-high hit streak to 11 games (5/19 - 6/20) and hit his third home run of the postseason, a solo homer in the bottom of the first inningChris O'Riordan extended his consecutive games started streak to 176Jason Cooper hit an RBI double in the fifth inning and has at least one RBI in each of his four CWS gamesStanford's senior class - Scott Dragicevich, Chris O'Riordan, Dan Rich, Andy Topham, Arik VanZandt and J.D. Willcox - was the first group of Stanford players to ever make four trips to the College World Series ... The group finished as CWS runner-up twice (2000, '01), won an outright Pac-10 title in 1999 and shared a Pac-10 title in 2000 ... The group finished its collegiate career with 198-66 (.750) overall record
OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE TEAM LEADERS
Jason Cooper - Runs Batted In (57), Slugging Percentage (.611)Brian Hall - Stolen Bases (14)Sam Fuld - Batting Average (.375), Games Played (65, co-leader), At Bats (293), Hits (110), Doubles (20), Triples (4, co-leader), Total Bases (162)Ryan Garko - Runs Scored (68), Home Runs (14), Bases On Balls (38), On-Base Percentage (.430), Putouts (397)Chris O'Riordan - Sacrifice Flies (9), Assists (214)Carlos Quentin - Triples (4, co-leader), Hit-By-Pitch (19)Arik VanZandt - Sacrifice Hits (8)
PITCHING TEAM LEADERS
Jeremy Guthrie - Wins (13), Games Started (20, co-leader), Complete Games (6), Innings Pitched (157.2), Strikeouts (136)Dan Rich - ERA (2.45)