Baseball

Stanford-Washington Baseball Game Notes (May 13, 2006)

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Stanford extended its winning streak to a new season-high five games (its longest since winning five in a row form April 27 - May 4, 2004), while also winning for the seventh time in its last eight contests and its fourth consecutive game on the road (its longest road win streak since taking five in a row from March 20 - April 3, 2005)

Stanford won its fifth straight game against Washington

Stanford scored a season-high 14 runs, marking its most since a 14-3 win at USC on May 28, 2005

Stanford had its string of giving up five or fewer runs snapped at nine consecutive games

Stanford's nine-run second inning tied the club's biggest scoring frame of the season

Stanford came from behind to win for the 16th time in 26 wins this season

Nolan Gallagher pitched a career-high 7.0 innings and equaled a career-best with his fifth career five-strikeout contest

Michael Taylor extended his hit streak to seven games (one shy of his season-high), while Jason Castro increased his to a career-high-tying five in a row

Randy Molina had his hit streak snapped at six games

Chris Minaker has now started 144 consecutive games at shortstop and played every inning at the position in the last two seasons

Ryan Seawell tied a career-best with the fourth three-hit contest of his career

Grant Escue scored a career-high two runs

Brian Juhl tied a career-high with two hits

Mark Marquess recorded his 1250th career victory (all at Stanford)

Stanford moved up two places and into a sixth-place tie with Washington in the Pac-10 standings

The victory guaranteed Stanford of its third straight conference series for the first time since taking seven straight Pac-10 series from May 3, 2003 - May 2, 2004

Stanford needs a victory in Sunday's series finale to record its first Pac-10 road sweep since taking three in a row at Washington State from April 1-3, 2005