Baseball

Stanford-Santa Clara Baseball Game Notes (May 9, 2006)

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Stanford has won four of its last five games overall

The 15-inning game was Stanford's longest since the Cardinal needed 18 innings to win 5-4 at Arizona on April 5, 2002

The game time of five hours and seven minutes was the longest Stanford game of the season

Stanford's 16 hits were the club's most since the Cardinal also had 16 in a 10-6 win at Arizona on April 21

Stanford snapped a three-game losing streak to Santa Clara

Stanford improved to 3-2 in extra inning contests

Stanford's pitching staff continued its string of giving up five or fewer runs to seven straight games

The last three games between Stanford and Santa Clara have all gone extra innings

Chris Minaker has now started 141 consecutive games at shortstop and played every inning at the position in the last two seasons

Chris Lewis, Chris Minaker and Michael Taylor became the first players this season to have seven at bats in a game this season

Chris Lewis tied his career-high with the third two-double game of his career

Chris Lewis extended his hit streak to a new season-high six games and one shy of the career-high seven-game hit streak he put together in 2005

Grant Escue drove in the first two runs of his career with his two-run double in the top of the 12th

Stanford made three errors and now has at least one error in 14 of its last 16 games