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Stanford-Nevada Baseball Game Notes (May 3, 2005)

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Stanford has won six of its last seven games overall and two in a row on the road, evening its record away from Sunken Diamond this season at 8-8
Stanford's pitching staff tossed its second consecutive shutout, marking the first time Stanford has posted back-to-back shutouts since blanking San Jose State (11-0) and UCLA (4-0) at Sunken Diamond on April 23 and 26, 1996
Stanford's pitching staff has now tossed 19 consecutive scoreless innings
Stanford's shutout was its fourth of the season Stanford's pitching staff has allowed just seven hits during its back-to-back shutouts
Stanford's pitching staff has lowered its ERA to 3.95 with the 19 consecutive scoreless innings to mark the first time the team's ERA has been under 4.00 since it stood at 3.98 after Stanford's game on April 15 at Arizona State ... Stanford has finished the season with an ERA under 4.00 four times in the past six campaigns
Stanford made one error on Tuesday to maintain a .979 fielding percentage that leads the nation and is .002 points higher than the school record .977 fielding percentage posted by the 2001 club
Stanford posted 11 hits on Tuesday and now has 10 or more hits in its six of its last eight contests
Stanford's 13-run margin of victory was its largest of the season
Adam Sorgi extended his career-high hit streak to eight games, drove in a career-high four runs (Sorgi has seven RBI in Stanford's last two games) and had a career-high (and team season-high-tying) two sacrifice flies
John Hester tied a career-high with his three RBI
Chris Minaker tied a season-high with his three RBI
Jim Rapoport drew two walks and has now walked 10 times in his last three contests, while successfully executing his team-leading sixth sacrifice bunt of the campaign
John Mayberry Jr.'s two-double game was the second of his career and he now leads the squad with 15 doubles ... Mayberry also took sole possession of the team's lead in hits and now has 51 on the season
Matt Manship's 1.1 scoreless innings now gives him 21.0 frames of work this year with just one run allowed as he lowered his season ERA to 0.43