April 9, 2012
BERKELEY, Calif.-- Stephen Picotty drove in seven and Brian Ragira extended his hit streak to 12 games with five hits and five RBIs as No. 5-ranked Stanford (20-7) thumped host California (17-13) 19-6 in a non-conference game on Monday afternoon.
Before Cal could blink, Stanford had scored 11 runs on 11 hits over the first three innings.
Five-straight two-out hits in the first led to a 4-0 lead, capped by a two-run double by Kenny Diekroeger. Piscotty's three-run homer in the second made it 7-0, before his two-run single in the third, started a four-run third. A Piscotty sacrifice fly made it 12-4 in the fifth.
Piscotty hit seven RBIs for the second-time this season in the eighth, finishing off his day with an RBI double and a 3-for-7 day.
Every Stanford starter had at least one hit, seven had at least two, Piscotty, Ragira, Austin Wilson and Eric Smith had three, adding up to 23 for the Cardinal.
Ragira went 5-for-6 day, which included single RBIs in five at-bats and a solo homer in the seventh. Diekroeger finished with four RBIs.
Reliever Sahil Bloom (1-0) pitched 5.0 innings, at one point retiring 11 in a row for the win. He gave up two runs on three hits.
Keaton Siomkin (0-1) gave up four runs in the first for the loss.
NOTES: The Cardinal moved up to No. 5 in the USA Today/Coaches poll and remained at No. 6 in the Baseball America and No. 16 in Collegiate Baseball... Stanford returns to host Pacific next Tuesday. The Cardinal host top-20 Oregon next week in a three-game series starting on Friday.