Feb. 21, 2004
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Stanford, Calif. - No. 6 Texas (11-1) evened its series with No. 4 Stanford (9-2) and snapped the Cardinal's 16-game home win streak with a 9-6 victory in a non-conference game at Sunken Diamond on Saturday. Reliever Randy Boone (2-0) earned the victory after entering the game to begin the bottom of the second inning, limiting the Cardinal to three unearned runs and four hits with two strikeouts over 6.2 innings. Dooley Prince (3-4, 2 2B, RBI) had three hits to lead the Longhorns' 12-hit attack, while Taylor Teagarden (2-5, 2B, 3 RBI) drove in three runs. Curtis Thigpen (2-2, RBI) also had a multiple-hit game for the Longhorns, while Michael Hollimon homered, scored a career-high four runs and drove in two.
Stanford, who also had a six-game overall win string broken, brought the winning run to home plate in the bottom of the ninth inning by loading the bases before J. Brent Cox struck out Sam Fuld to record his first career save. All four of the batters Cox retired after entering the game with two outs in the eighth inning came via strikeout.
Danny Putnam (2-5) was the only Stanford player with more than one hit.
Stanford starter Jeff Gilmore (2-1) suffered his first collegiate loss, allowing seven runs and seven hits with three strikeouts over the first 3.2 innings.
Texas took a 2-0 lead just two batters into the game when Prince drew a leadoff walk and Hollimon followed with a long home run over the fence in rightcenter field.
The Cardinal came back with three runs in the bottom of the first inning. Fuld and Jed Lowrie walked back-to-back to lead off the inning before a Putnam single loaded the bases. John Mayberry, Jr. then hit a ground ball to Texas third baseman J.D. Reininger, who threw wide to Teagarden on a close play at the plate on an attempt to retire Fuld as the lead runner. Mayberry was credited with a fielders choice RBI on the play. Texas starter Sam Lecure hit Donny Lucy two batters later to force in Lowrie with the second run of the frame and then walked Adam Sorgi with the bases loaded two more batters later to give the Cardinal a 3-2 lead. LeCure pitched just one complete inning, allowing three runs on three hits, three walks and a hit batsmen in a no-decision outing.
Texas scored twice in the top of the third inning to retake a 4-3 advantage. Prince started the rally again with a one-out double and Hollimon walked to put Longhorns on first and second base before Thigpen came through with an RBI single to tie the game and plate Prince. Teagarden followed with an RBI double to score Hollimon and give Texas the lead.
Stanford tied the score at 4-4 with an unearned run in the bottom of the third. Brian Hall reached on a one-out throwing error by Hollimon at shortstop, stole second base, moved to third on a throwing error by Teagarden on his throw to second, and scored two batters later when Chris Minaker recorded his first collegiate RBI with a sacrifice fly.
Texas took the lead for good by scoring three runs after two were out in the top of the fifth. Gilmore hit Drew Stubbs with one out to start the rally and Nathan Warrick followed by beating out a bunt single and Stubbs advanced to third on the play when Lucy's throw to first base hit Warrick and bounced away from Mayberry at first base. Gilmore nearly got out of the inning when he recorded the second out of the frame by picking Warrick off first base after faking a pickoff move to third base and wheeling around to catch Warrick leaning off the bag, but Prince came through with a two-out RBI single to score Stubbs and put the Longhorns back in front, 5-4. Gilmore was removed from the game after walking Hollimon and Thigpen drew another walk off Stanford reliever Matt Manship to load the bases before Teagarden came through with a clutch two-RBI single to score Prince and Hollimon.
The Longhorns extended their lead to 9-4 with two more runs in the top of the sixth. Hollimon and Thigpen drew back-to-back one-out walks to chase Manship. Jonny Dyer came on to strikeout Teagarden for the second out of the inning before giving up an RBI double to Seth Johnston and an RBI-single to Reininger.
Stanford scored two more unearned runs in the bottom of the eighth to cut the margin to 9-6. Adam Sorgi led off the rally with a single but was retired on a fielders choice two batters later for the second Cardinal out. Lowrie kept the inning alive with a two-out single that also extended his hit streak to seven games before scoring along with Fuld when Texas leftfielder Scott Dodge dropped a hard-hit line drive to left field by Putnam.
Texas won the game despite walking seven batters, hitting two and making four errors.
Stanford stranded a season-high 13 runners, while the Longhorns left nine on base.
Fuld walked in his first at bat and now leads the Cardinal with 15 bases on balls this season, while Lowrie walked three times.
Hollimon and Thigpen both walked three times for the Longhorns as the Cardinal pitching staff issued eight bases on balls.
Dyer struck out three in his 1.2 innings of work for Stanford, while Matt Leva tossed a pair of hitless innings.
Cameron Matthews, a former team manager for the Cardinal, made his collegiate debut when he pinch-ran with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning for Minaker.
The Cardinal has just 13 hits in the first two games of the series for a .197 batting average.Stanford and Texas will conclude their series with Sunday's rubber game (1 pm, PT). Texas has announced LHP Justin Simmons (2-0, 1.93) as its probable starter, while the Cardinal has announced that LHP Blake Holler (0-0, 3.00) is scheduled to make his first collegiate start. Stanford needs a win in Sunday's series finale to extend its series win streak to eight and capture its 16th series victory in its last 17 efforts. The Cardinal has won four of the six regular season series between the teams since 1998 with the Longhorns winning once and the teams splitting a shortened two-game series in 2000. Stanford leads the all-time series between the clubs, 16-13-1.
"It's important to win series against good teams like Texas," said Stanford head coach Mark Marquess.
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