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Stanford-TCU Baseball Game Notes (June 5, 2005)

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Stanford has come back from an opening round regional loss to win a regional once before in school history (1988) when the Cardinal lost its Northeast Regional (New Britain, Conn.) opener by a score of 5-3 to St. John's (May 27) before coming back to win four straight elimination games to capture the regional (Stanford went on to win its second straight and most recent College World Series title that season, winning a total of eight elimination games by adding four CWS elimination victories to its four at the regional)

Stanford won two games on the same day in the postseason for the fourth time in school history with an updated all-time record of 4-2-6 (sweeps/swept/splits) in postseason doubleheaders

Stanford has played two postseason games on back-to-back days only twice in school history, taking three-of-four games each time (May 28-29, 1995; May 26-27, 2001)

Stanford's current two-game postseason win streak is its longest since the club won two straight postseason games versus Cal State Fullerton at the College World Series from June 18-19, 2003

Stanford's updated all-time postseason record is 117-57 (.672), while its all-time regional record improved to 65-24 (.730)

Stanford's comeback victory was its 14th in 33 wins this season

Stanford stole a season-high five bases

Chris Minaker's two doubles increases his season total to 25 and moves him into sole possession of second-place on Stanford's all-time single-season list in that category, ranking just four behind school record holder Troy Paulsen's 29 two-baggers in 1990

Matt Manship's second save of the day, third of his postseason career and team-leading fifth of the season increased his career total to 17, ranking him tied for second on Stanford's all-time list with Scott Weiss (17, 1988-91)

Matt Manship lowered his season ERA to 0.80 with his season-high-tying 3.0 scoreless innings of work

Mark Romanczuk increased his career innings pitched total to 329.1 to move up one spot to eighth on Stanford's all-time list

John Mayberry, Jr. hit his fourth career postseason homer

Stanford maintained its .978 fielding percentage despite one error, ranking one point better than the school record of .977 set by the 2001 club

Stanford's pitching staff has an updated 3.79 season ERA as the Cardinal is looking to record an ERA under 4.00 for the fourth time in the last six campaigns

Stanford has five players - Jed Lowrie (2B), Chris Lewis (LF/RF), John Mayberry, Jr. (1B), Chris Minaker (SS) and Adam Sorgi (3B) - that have started all 58 of the team's games to this point with Mayberry and Minaker playing every inning of the season at their respective positions