Baseball

Stanford-UC Davis Baseball Game Notes (May 22, 2007)

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Stanford has now won three in a row to equal its second longest win streak of the season and six of its last seven

Stanford kept its hopes alive of avoiding its first losing season since 1993 as the Cardinal can still finish with an even .500 (28-28) record with wins in each of its last three regular season games at USC this Friday-Sunday, May 25-27

The 13-inning game clocked in at 4:13 and was Stanford's longest contest of the season in both time and innings played with the 13 innings played the longest the Cardinal has played at Sunken Diamond since a 3-2 victory in 13 innings over Cal State Fullerton in the first game of an NCAA Regional on May 31, 2002

Stanford snapped a two-game losing streak against UC Davis and now leads the all-time series (since 1959), 41-9

Stanford improved to 7-5 in the month of May and is trying to record only its second winning month of the 2007 season and its first since the club was 7-5 in February

Stanford recorded double digit hits for the eighth straight game and the 17th time in the last 19 contests

David Stringer ran his consecutive string of innings without allowing an earned run to 14.1

David Stringer recorded a career-high six strikeouts

Michael Taylor extended his hit streak to nine games and notched his 13th multiple-hit contest in his last 16 games

Jason Castro had a career and team season-high 21 putouts

Cord Phelps and Adam Sorgi tied a team season-high with seven assists each with Phelps establishing a new career-high and Sorgi equaling his career-best

Joey August set a new career-high with seven at bats

Toby Gerhart set a new career-high and a new team season-high with three hit-by-pitches

Stanford starter Austin Yount pitched a new career-high 5.2 innings

Stanford set new season-highs with 45 at bats, 39 putouts, 25 assists and 15 runners left on base

Stanford won for just the second time in its last 12 night games

Stanford came from behind to win for the 16th time in 25 victories this season

Stanford's victory gave the Cardinal a final 17-15 home record in 2007 to extend its string of 17 or more home wins in a season to 12 in a row and avoid equaling the worst winning percentage ever in recorded history at home (.500, 13-13, 1964)

Stanford now has 38 homers on the season and needs just two more in its final three games to extend its string of 40-homer seasons to 20 in a row

Stanford senior Ryan Seawell played in the final home game of his career and was honored in a pre-game ceremony

Stanford student radio broadcaster Alex Gyr was on the KZSU 90.1 FM broadcast for the final time at Sunken Diamond in his collegiate career and was recognized over the public address system during the contest