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Stanford-USC Baseball Game Notes (April 2, 2006)

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New York Yankee players Mike Mussina and Alex Rodriguez were in attendance at the game one day prior to their scheduled 2006 MLB season-opener at Oakland on Monday ... Mussina played three seasons at Stanford from 1988-90

Stanford lost four-of-six games to USC this season to drop its first season series to the Trojans since 1996

Stanford lost a regular season home series to USC for the first time since 1999, snapping a string of six consecutive series victories over the Trojans at Sunken Diamond

Stanford has now dropped three straight series to the Trojans for the first time since USC won nine consecutive games over the Cardinal by sweeping the final series between the clubs in 1995, as well as both series in 1996

The one runner left on base by Stanford was a season-low

The game last just 2:32 (one minute shy of Stanford's shortest game of the season)

Stanford hit into a season-high-tying three double plays for the third time this season

Michael Taylor had the fourth assist of his career when he threw out Darin Vieira at the plate for the final out in the top of the sixth

UPDATED PAC-10 STANDINGS
(Does not include Sunday evening Arizona-Arizona State non-conference game)
California (4-2, ---, 16-12), USC (4-2, ---, 17-13), Arizona State (2-1, 0.5, 23-8), Washington State (3-3, 1.0, 21-9), Washington (3-3, 1.0, 20-11), Oregon State (1-2, 1.5, 19-8), UCLA (1-2, 1.5, 16-13), Arizona (1-2, 1.5, 12-14), Stanford (2-4, 2.0, 13-11)