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Cardinal Strands Game 2

 
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Stanford (10-13)100010100391
Arizona State (17-7)12003000X6100
Phoenix Municipal Stadium (Phoenix, Arizona)
 Attendance: 3,604  • Time: 2:46 
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PitchingIPHRERBBSO
W - Kellogg (5-0)6.072222
L - Cramer (0-1)2.053322
S - Burr (9)1.200002

Hitting
Edman - 2-4, 2B, RBI
Locher - 2-4, 2B
Jackson - 1-2, 2 BB

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Sunday, March 29 • 12:30 p.m. PT
Stanford at Arizona State
  

PHOENIX -- Stanford left 10 runners on base, as Arizona State took the second game of a three-game series, 6-3, at Phoenix Municipal Stadium Saturday night. Arizona State clinched the series with the finale set for Sunday at 12:30 p.m. PT.

Arizona State (17-7, 6-2 Pac-12) outhit Stanford 10-9 on its way to its sixth conference win in its last seven tries. Gabe Cramer (0-1), who was making his first career start, and Keith Weisenberg, the first out of Stanford’s bullpen, surrendered all six ASU runs in the first five innings.

Tommy Edman and Jonny Locher led the Cardinal with two hits and one double apiece. Stanford fell one hit short of its second straight 10+ hit game, a feat it has achieved twice this season.

Stanford (10-13, 0-5 Pac-12) got to Arizona State starter Ryan Kellogg early, when Edman laced a leadoff double down the left field line and Alex Dunlap drove him in with a two-out RBI single through the left side. The lead was short-lived, however, as ASU plated one in the first and two more in the second on its way to a 6-2 lead by the end of the fifth.

Kellogg (5-0) took the win to remain undefeated. The two-time first team All-Pac-12 lefty allowed two runs on seven hits in six innings. Ryan Burr picked up his ninth save by throwing 1.2 shutouts innings after Jordan Aboites and Eric Melbostad bridged the middle innings.

Burr entered with two on in the eighth and shut the door with a pair of strikeouts and a 1-2-3 inning to finish off the Cardinal. Stanford also spoiled a no-out, bases-loaded situation in the seventh by getting just one run across. 

Joey Starling pitched the final 3.1 innings for Stanford without allowing a run. He mixed speeds in the zone to keep Arizona State hitless over the final 12 batters while walking two. 

Stanford and Arizona State finish the series tomorrow with lefty Logan James getting the ball for Stanford.