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Pacific Gets Past Cardinal

 
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Stanford (11-18)000002001332
Pacific (7-23)00002101X450
Klein Family Field (Stockton, Calif.)
 Attendance: 421 • Time: 2:38
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PitchingIPHRERBBSO
W - Jaeger (1-1)2.010001
L - Brodey (0-3)1.021110
S - Arobio (5)1.001121

Hitting
Winaker - 1-3, 2 RBI
Klein - 1-3, 2B
Diekroeger - 1-3

Next Game
Tuesday, April 7 • 5:30 p.m. PT
Stanford vs. Pacific
Klein Field at Sunken Diamond
  

STOCKTON, Calif. -- Pacific snapped an eight-game losing streak to the Stanford baseball team with a 4-3 decision at Klein Family Field Monday night. The two-game series concludes tomorrow at Klein Field at Sunken Diamond as part of a home-and-home nonconference set.

Stanford (11-18) limited Pacific to one earned run but struggled to get its bats alive. Three Cardinal pitchers were haunted by two errors, a passed ball and eight walks, while allowing just five hits. Colton Hock started and went 4.2 innings without giving up an earned run.  

Pacific (7-23) pulled ahead 4-2 on Brett Sullivan’s sixth homer of the season in the sixth and a squeeze-play RBI bunt in the eighth. The Cardinal pushed a run across in the ninth, after two walks opened the inning, before Zach Hoffpauir’s bat shattered on a grounder to the hole at short that ended the game on a close play at first.

John Jaeger (1-1) was the winner by throwing 2.0 shutout innings and Vince Arobio earned his fifth save with the tying run on second in the ninth.

Quinn Brodey (0-3), who Sullivan homered off of, took the loss. Sullivan was a triple away from the cycle as part of a 3-for-3 day at the plate.

The teams traded two runs in the bottom of the fifth and top of the sixth. Both of Pacific’s runs were scored after a two-out error on a groundball to short, while Stanford’s tallies came across on a two-out two-RBI single off the bat of Matt Winaker. The lefty smashed Jaeger’s 1-1 offering up the middle for his fifth multi-RBI game of the season.

Stanford had two hitters reach on walks in the first four innings but both were wiped from the base paths. Beau Branton was picked off in the second and Drew Jackson got caught in a rundown after over-sliding second base on a steal.

The Cardinal had won its last four nonconference midweek games dating back to Feb. 24.

Pacific makes the trip to Klein Field at Sunken Diamond tomorrow for a 5:30 p.m. PT contest.