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Stanford-Kansas Baseball Game Notes (February 12, 2006)

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Stanford's victory in Sunday's series finale helped the Cardinal avoid being swept in a regular season three-game series at Sunken Diamond for the first time since Arizona State took three in a row from April 11-13, 1997 (a span of 63 consecutive regular season three-game home series)

Four Stanford freshmen pitchers (Jeremy Bleich, Max Fearnow, Sean Ratliff, Austin Yount) have combined for an 0.68 ERA, allowing just one run and six hits in 13.1 innings

Stanford's pitching staff has allowed an ERA of just 3.44 in its first six games, which would be the team's lowest ERA since the 1973 club posted a 2.64 mark

Michael Taylor had a busy day in right field with a career-high seven putouts

Both of Jim Rapoport's hits were bunt singles

Joey August hit in the leadoff spot for the first time in his career

Stanford outhit an opponent for the first time this season (the Cardinal had been outhit in four previous games and equaled its opponents hit total once)

Stanford's 10 hits tied a season-high

Jeremy Bleich has pitched in four of the team's first six games, recording a win and a pair of saves without giving up a run and allowing just three hits for an opponents' batting average of just .120 with six strikeouts in 7.1 innings

Jeremy Bleich had a career-high five strikeouts on Sunday

Jason Castro has now hit safely in a team-high four consecutive games after singling in his final at bat in the eighth inning

The game time of 2:39 tied for the team's shortest game of the season