STANFORD
Stanford has lost four of its last five games versus UCLA and three in a row to the Bruins with UCLA securing its second straight series victory over the Cardinal after Stanford had won nine straight series against the Bruins from 1998-2005
Stanford needs a victory in the final game of its current series versus UCLA on Sunday (a day in which the Cardinal is 6-1 this season) to avoid being swept in a regular season three-game home series for the first time since Arizona State won three in a row against the Cardinal at Sunken Diamond from April 11-13, 1997, spanning a string of 71 consecutive regular season three-game home sets
Stanford has dropped two straight overall and a season-high three in a row at home
Michael Taylor hit his second homer in as many games, his fourth career homer versus UCLA and his career-high-tying fifth this season with his three-run shot in the Cardinal ninth
With losses in the first two games of the series, Stanford had its home series win streak versus UCLA snapped at five with the Bruins wrapping up a series victory over the Cardinal in a series at Sunken Diamond for the first time since 1997
The game was the longest of the season for Stanford, clocking in at 4:12 as the Cardinal played for three or more hours for the 12th time in 24 games this season
Michael Taylor (RF) and Sean Ratliff (CF) have now both started all 24 games this season
Michael Taylor extended his string of consecutive games started to 140 dating back to the 2005 campaign
Joey August extended his career-high hit streak to 10 games
Adam Sorgi extended his season-high hit streak to seven in a row
Stanford's nine-run ninth inning was its biggest scoring inning of the season and the biggest since a pair of nine-run frames in 2006 in the third inning versus Texas (2/20/06) and the second frame at Washington (5/13/06)
Stanford had season-highs of 17 hits offensively and 14 assists on defense, while tying season-highs with 26 total bases and 43 at bats
Stanford allowed season-highs of 16 runs, 15 earned runs and 24 hits
Min Moon had the first two hits of his Stanford career with both coming in the Cardinal ninth
Cord Phelps tied career-highs with two runs scored and two RBI
Tom Stilson tied a career-high with two strikeouts
Blake Hancock pitched a career-high 4.0 innings
Jeff Whitlow posted the first two-hit game of his Stanford career with both hits coming in the Cardinal ninth
Jeffrey Inman had the shortest start of his career with 1.1 innings of work
Austin Yount (sixth inning) and Michael Taylor (following the final out in the bottom of the ninth inning) were both ejected from the contest
Stanford has now lost its first two Pac-10 games of the season for the second consecutive year after having won its first Pac-10 series of the season for nine consecutive campaigns from 1997-2005