STANFORD
Stanford's victory helped the Cardinal avoid being swept in a three-game regular season home series for the first time since 1997 and extend its run of not being swept in a regular season three-game home series to 71 in a row
Stanford also avoided being swept in a three-game regular season series by USC for the first time since 1996 and ran that string of series to 19 straight
Michael Taylor (RF) and Sean Ratliff (CF) have now each started all 19 games this season
Michael Taylor extended his string of consecutive games started to 135 dating back to the 2005 season
Michael Taylor extended his hit streak to a new career-high 10 games
Michael Taylor had a career-high five RBI
Michael Taylor had a season-high four hits
Joey August had a career-high three RBI
Grant Escue had a career-high-tying two RBI
Grant Escue hit his first career triple
Mark Marquess recorded his 1268th career victory to move into sole possession of 11th-place on the all-time list of victories by NCAA Division I Baseball coaches
Stanford scored a season-high 14 runs
Stanford recorded its seventh comeback victory in 11 wins this season
Stanford's six runs in the bottom of the eighth equaled the team's highest-scoring inning of the season
Stanford scored 10 runs (all earned) on eight hits off the USC bullpen in 2.0 innings of work
Sean Ratliff extended his career-high hit streak to six games
Stanford snapped a four-game losing streak to USC and a season-high-tying three-game skid overall
Stanford ended a two-game home losing streak and improved to 10-2 at Sunken Diamond this season
Stanford won for just the second time in nine games against ranked teams this year compared to its 9-1 record versus unranked clubs
The game was played in front of a season-high crowd of 2116
The game lasted 3:42 and was the fifth time in the last six contests as well as the 10th time this season that the Cardinal has played more than three hours
Stanford recorded its second straight errorless game after having not recorded one in the first 17 contests of the season
Wande Olabisi and Min (Brian) Moon both made their collegiate debuts with Olabisi pinch-running in the Stanford eighth and Min playing third base in the top of the ninth