Baseball

Stanford-UCLA Baseball Game Notes (May 15, 2005)

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Stanford extended its series victory streak over UCLA to nine in a row by winning two-of-three contests in the series

Stanford has now also won eight straight season series against UCLA

Stanford has won eight of its last 10 games and two consecutive series at Sunken Diamond

Stanford played errorless baseball for the 22nd time in 48 contests this season to maintain a .978 fielding percentage that ranks second in the nation and is one percentage point better than the school record of .977 set by the 2001 club

Stanford's pitching staff lowered its ERA to 3.74, the lowest its been since it stood at 3.70 after the first game of a doubleheader April 9 versus Oregon State as the Cardinal is attempting to record a team ERA under 4.00 for the fourth time in the last six seasons

Ryan Seawell's eighth inning pinch-hit homer was the first longball of his career and he also tied a career-best with three RBI

Stanford had at least one hit from each of the nine spots in its batting order

Blake Holler equaled his career-high with five strikeouts

Jed Lowrie finished the UCLA series with a .545 batting average (6-11), five RBI and a stolen base

Chris Minaker hit safely in his sixth consecutive contest to tie the longest hit streak of his career

John Mayberry, Jr. was hit by a pair of pitches to equal the most times in a game a Stanford player has been hit this season

Stanford was hit by three pitches as a team to tie a season-high

The three hits allowed by the Stanford pitching staff tied a season-low

Stanford's pitching staff allowed just four earned runs in 27.0 innings of work in the UCLA series for a team ERA of 1.33 and also held UCLA to a team .186 batting average

Stanford was mathematically eliminated from winning its third straight Pac-10 title after Oregon State picked up its 17th conference win on Sunday