May 24, 2011
STANFORD, Calif.-- Tyler Gaffney extended his hit streak to 15 games, but No. 24-ranked Stanford (30-20) dropped its home finale, 3-1 to visiting Cal Poly (27-23).
Frankie Reed got the two-inning save, his third of the year, each time stopping the tying run from scoring.
Reed worked out of a two-on, two-out jam in the eighth, forcing an inning ending force out to keep it at 3-1 following six strong innings from Kyle Anderson (3-5). Reed then induced Cal Poly's fourth double play in the ninth for the first and second out of the inning. He then closed out the game with a fly out.
Gaffney's single to lead off the sixth was one of eight hits for the Cardinal.
Anderson (3-5) scattered five hits over the first six innings, allowing just one run in the first. In his final inning of work, and the tying runs on base in the sixth, Anderson induced a double play ball and a strikeout.
Chase Johnson pitched a scoreless seventh, leading to Reed in the eighth and ninth. Matt Jensen drove in two of the three runs for the Mustangs.
Jensen broke a 1-1 tie in the fifth a solo home run to left to make it 2-1, before a safety squeeze then made it 3-1. Cal Poly tied it in the second with an RBI single from Jensen. Jensen finished 3-for-4.
Dean McArdle (7-4) went the first four-plus innings, giving up three runs on four hits. Four pitchers then followed with six scoreless innings, led by Brian Busick's three shutout innings and Sahil Bloom's perfect eighth.
Zach Jones scored following his team-best 15th double, scored on an RBI ground out by Gaffney to give Stanford an early 1-0 lead in the first.
NOTES: Brian Ragira went 0-for-4 snapping his 10-game hit streak... the Cardinal close out the regular season at No. 23-ranked Cal on Friday at 2:30 p.m and Saturday in a doubleheader at noon... regional sites will be announced at noon on Sunday and the full NCAA field will be announced at 9:30 a.m on ESPN on Memorial Day... Stanford finished the midweek affairs 12-2... Stanford finished 18-7 at home during the regular season.