Chris Minaker was able to extend his season-high hit streak to 10 games (career-high is 13) but his string of consecutive games with an RBI was snapped at five
Grant Escue and J.J. Jelmini both had their first career hit and RBI in the ninth inning
Stanford needs a win in Sunday's series finale to avoid dropping back-to-back regular season series to the Trojans since USC won all six regular season games between the clubs in 1996 ... Stanford had won seven straight regular season series games between the teams before USC won two-of-three games against the Cardinal in Los Angeles in the final regular season series for both clubs in 2005
Stanford recorded its seventh straight double-digit hit game with a season-high-tying 14 hits, improving the Cardinal's batting average to a season-high .270
Randy Molina recorded the first four-hit game of his career
Cord Phelps extended his career-high hit streak to six games with a sixth inning single
Stanford managed to play errorless baseball for the sixth time this season
Stanford left 11 runners on base Saturday and now has stranded 23 runners during the first two games of the series
Stanford allowed season-highs of 16 runs and 20 hits as its team ERA ballooned to a season-high 4.23, adding .76 points from the 3.47 the staff started the game with
The six runs scored by USC in the bottom of the second was the biggest inning against Stanford this season
Stanford's loss drops the team's record against non-ranked opponents to just 6-5 (the Cardinal is 5-1 versus ranked clubs according to Baseball America)
Saturday's game marked the smallest crowd to witness a Stanford game this season for a second consecutive day when just 224 fans showed up on another unusually cold afternoon as the series has now drawn just 567 fans in the first two games