STANFORD, Calif. – A season-high 15 hits led Stanford baseball to a 10-3 win over Santa Clara on Tuesday night at Sunken Diamond.
Stanford's second batter of the game set the tone. Freshman Nico Hoerner lined one into left center and came sprinting out of the box to turn a sure single into a double. The rest of the lineup followed suit.
Eight of the nine Stanford starters had at least one hit. Bryce Carter was 3-for-4 with his first career three-hit game, including two RBI doubles. Quinn Brodey (3-for-4) matched a career high with three hits and also had two RBI. Jack Klein was 2-for-3 with a two-run home run and matched a collegiate-best with three runs. Tommy Edman had two hits, two runs and two RBI, while Hoerner also finished with a pair of hits and runs.
Hoerner's hustle play led to a run on Quinn Brodey's sacrifice fly. Edman singled, stole second and scored on Alex Dunlap's single for a 2-0 lead after one.
The Broncos scored on back-to-back two-out doubles in the second to get within 2-1, but Stanford responded with five in the bottom half and another in the third. Matt Winaker had an RBI single, Edman scored two with a double to right field, and Brodey singled him home for the second time for a 6-1 edge. Carter made it 7-1 with a two-out RBI double to left center in the third.
Santa Clara (20-26) closed to within 7-2, but Carter's carbon copy double to left center scored Duke Kinamon from first for an 8-2 edge.
Sophomore southpaw Andrew Summerville (4-2) earned the win with quality start. He allowed just two earned runs in 6.0 innings of work, which included two strikeouts and just one walk.
The Broncos scored one in the seventh, but Klein answered in the bottom of the inning with a two-run home run to left for a 10-3 advantage.
Freshman Kris Bubic pitched a scoreless eighth and sophomore Colton Hock closed it out with a scoreless ninth to wrap up Stanford's third straight win.
NOTABLES: Dunlap has reached base in 18 straight games, extending the longest streak of the season for a Cardinal (longest since Alex Blandino reached in 31 straight in 2014) ... Edman extended the longest current hit streak for the Cardinal to eight games ... Brodey and Dunlap each extended their hit streaks to seven games ... Stanford matched its season-high hit total from an April 5 win at Cal ... This is Stanford's fourth winning streak of at least three games.
NEXT UP: Stanford heads to Salt Lake City to take on first-place Utah. The Pac-12 leaders will host the Cardinal on Friday afternoon (11 a.m. PT), Saturday evening (5 p.m. PT) and Sunday afternoon (noon PT). All three games can be seen on the Utah Pac-12 live stream.