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Stanford-Washington State Baseball Game Notes (April 2, 2005)

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Stanford won its fourth consecutive road game (the team's longest road win streak since taking five in a row from March 23 - April 3, 2004) to improve to 5-5 away from Sunken Diamond this season
Stanford's victories in each of the first two games of the Washington State series assure the Cardinal of its 10th consecutive Pac-10 opening series victory
Stanford's victories in each of the first two games of the Washington State series also snaps a four-series road losing streak that was the club's longest since Stanford dropped seven straight road series from April 29, 1988 - April 10, 1989
Stanford needs a victory on Sunday to wrap up its third sweep of the season and its first Pac-10 sweep since taking three in a row from Washington State at Sunken Diamond from April 30 - May 2, 2004
Stanford won its 22nd 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 played errorless baseball for the 14th time in its first 25 games this season to maintain 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 two percentage points to 3.67 and is on track to be the team's second lowest since 1977 when the club posted a 3.44 ERA
Jed Lowrie, who had homered just once in his previous 12 contests, had the third two-homer game of his career and his second of the season while posting his fourth straight multiple-hit game
Adam Sorgi tied a career-high with two RBI for the second straight contest
Jim Rapoport had a sixth inning single and has now hit safely in 10 of his last 11 contests
Matt Manship (1.1 IP, 1 H, 1 BB) made his sixth consecutive scoreless relief appearance and has still not allowed a run in 7.2 innings of work this season
Blake Holler (2.0 IP, 1 H, 2 SO) made his fourth straight scoreless relief appearance and has not allowed a run over his last 7.2 innings
Jeff Gilmore (5.1 IP, 10 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 1 SO) had his shortest start since lasting just 4.2 innings in his only loss of the season at Texas (February 19) while also allowing a season-high 10 hits
Stanford tied a season-best by turning three double plays
Stanford posted double-digit hits for the eighth time in its last 11 games and the 16th time this season
Stanford has scored double-digit runs in back-to-back contests for the first time this year over the past two games
Stanford is now 11-0 in games in which the Cardinal scores in the first inning and 11-2 when Stanford scores first