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Stanford-Washington State Baseball Game Notes (April 1, 2005)

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Stanford won its third consecutive road game to improve to 4-5 away from Sunken Diamond this season
Stanford won its Pac-10 opener for the fifth time in the last seven seasons and needs just one win in the final two games of the series to run its string of Pac-10 opening series victories to 10
Stanford won its 21st consecutive game against Washington State dating back to the last Cougar victory in the series at the UC Riverside Invitational on March 28, 1978
Stanford needs to win just one of the final two games of the Washington State series to snap a current four-series road losing streak that is its longest since the club dropped seven straight road series from April 29, 1988 - April 10, 1989
Stanford had a season-high 20 hits (the team's first 20-hit game since getting 21 hits in a 15-1 win over Sacramento State at Sunken Diamond on April 23, 2004) to raise its team batting average 10 points to .290, which would still be the club's lowest since the 1994 team hit .285
Stanford scored in eight of the nine innings, the most innings the team has scored in this season
Stanford had a season-high 31 total bases
Stanford had one error in the contest but still maintained its .982 fielding percentage that is .005 percentage points better than the school record of .977 posted by the 2001 club
Stanford's pitching staff ERA rose just a hundredth of a point to 3.65 and is on track to be the team's second lowest since 1977 when the club posted a 3.44 ERA
Michael Taylor had the first four-hit and three-double contests of his career, while tying a career-best with three RBI
Adam Sorgi hit his second home run in the last three games and tied a career-high with two RBI
Jed Lowrie posted his third straight multiple-hit contest
Mark Romanczuk won his 28th career game at Stanford to move into a tie for sixth-place on the school's all-time list with Bruce Mignano (1979-82) and within nine victories of all-time leader Jeff Ballard (37, 1982-85)
Stanford's eight doubles and 10 extra-base hits were both season-highs
Stanford had a season-high eight players in the game with at least two hits
Stanford left a season-high 15 runners on base
Stanford tied a season-best with three stolen bases
Stanford improved to 9-0 in games that the Cardinal leads after the first inning, while now outscoring its opponents 31-13 in the first frame
Jim Rapoport tied a individual team season-best with the first two stolen base of his career