| Stanford Cardinal(20-18, 8-10) | Sunken Diamond Stanford, Calif. May 5-7, 2016 Tickets | Cal Bears(24-16, 10-11) |
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| Probable Starters | ||
| LHP Kris Bubic (0-1, 2.35 ERA) | Thursday 7 p.m. | RHP Ryan Mason (5-2, 2.80 ERA) |
| RHP Tristan Beck (4-4, 2.09 ERA) | Friday 7 p.m. | RHP Tanner Dodson (2-3, 2.83 ERA) |
| LHP Chris Castellanos (5-2, 3.77 ERA) | Saturday 7 p.m. | LHP Matt Ladrech (3-3, 4.09 ERA) |
Following a long road stint that saw Stanford play 11 of 15 games on the road, the Cardinal returns home to Sunken Diamond to take on rival Cal, Thursday-Saturday. All three games are at 7 p.m., and can be seen on the Pac-12 Networks.
Promotions
Thursday
#ThirstyThursday. The first 300 fans receive a free Stanford cup and a voucher for a free soda at the concessions stands.
Friday
Bark in the Park night! Bring your dog to Sunken Diamond. If you can't make it, tweet to @StanfordBSB with any pictures of you and your dog in your Stanford gear.
Saturday
New men's basketball head coach Jerod Haase will throw out the first pitch!
A video posted by Stanford Baseball (@stanfordbsb) on May 4, 2016 at 2:20pm PDT
Series History
Overall vs. Cal: 196-105 (.651) since 1959 | Streak: Stanford, 3
This Season: W, 8-6 (April 5); L, 2-5 (April 19)
• Stanford has won three of the last four in the series. The Cardinal won the final two of three in the Pac-12 series in Berkeley last season, and scored three in the ninth on April 5 to earn a dramatic 8-6 come-from-behind win.
• California has not won a season series against Stanford since 2008.
• Both earlier matchups this year do not count toward the Pac-12 standings.
• The Bears are coached by former Stanford player David Esquer.
• Esquer was the starting shortstop on Stanford’s 1987 national championship squad.
• Esquer earned a bachelor’s in economics and a master’s in sociology from Stanford.
Current Cardinal Against Cal
• Tommy Edman is hitting .357 (15-of-42) with 11 runs and nine RBI in 11 career games.
• Matt Winaker is a career .391 hitter against the Bears (9-of-23) with four doubles (7 gms).
• Quinn Brodey is 5-for-9 with 2 doubles and 3 RBI vs. Cal this year, and is .417 for his career.
• Starter Chris Castellanos has a 2.53 ERA in three appearances and 10.2 innings vs. Cal.
• Starter Kris Bubic has appeared in both Cal games this year—allowed 1 ER in 4.1 inn.
• Andrew Summerville has not allowed a run in 9.0 innings (3 app) against Cal.
We're No. 1
• Stanford entered the weekend ranked No. 1 in the nation in fielding percentage (.986).
• The Cardinal has the fewest errors in the country (295 teams) with just 20 in the first 39 games. Miami (FL) is second with 25 errors in 41 games.
• The team record for fewest errors in a season is 49 set in 2009 (current pace of just 27 errors) and the NCAA record for fielding percentage is .985 by San Francisco in 2011.
• In addition to those two categories, Stanford pitching also entered the week atop the Pac-12 in ERA (3.11), opposing batting average (.229), and fewest runs (141), earned runs (120), hits (287), doubles (46), and home runs (15) allowed. Second-fewest walks (131).
• Most of those numbers aren’t even close:
- Stanford’s ERA is a full run better than four Pac-12 teams.
- Stanford has allowed more than 100 fewer runs than Washington State and UCLA.
- Stanford has allowed 100 fewer hits than two Pac-12 teams.
Johnny Bench Award Watch Lilst
• Junior catcher Alex Dunlap was named to the Johnny Bench Award watch list on Wednesday.
• The award is given annually to the nation's top collegiate catcher.
• The watch list will be narrowed down to the semifinalists, who will be announced May 18, 2016. Ballots will be sent to the national voting panel at the end of May for a vote to determine the three finalists. The finalists will be announced June 6, 2016.Stanford Stats
• Stanford is No. 16 in the nation in ERA (3.11) and has allowed the eighth-fewest earned runs (120) in the country.
• Stanford is also No. 13 in the NCAA in hits per nine innings (7.42) and No. 18 in WHIP (1.20).
• Stanford has held its opponent to two or fewer runs 17 times this year (16-1), and allowed more then two runs 23 times (5-17).
• The Cardinal is 12-3 this year when scoring first and 12-3 when hitting a home run.Gameday! Best defense in the nation takes the field in Corvallis tonight #FarmBall #GoStanford🌲
A photo posted by Stanford Baseball (@stanfordbsb) on Apr 29, 2016 at 9:36am PDT
Stanford Streaks
• Junior Alex Dunlap has reached base in 14 straight games—that ties Matt Winaker for the longest streak by a Cardinal this season.
• Winaker’s nine-game hit streak is the longest streak of the season for Stanford.
• Junior shortstop Tommy Edman has played in 128 straight games (started 125 in a row).
• Sophomore Quinn Brodey is No. 9 in the nation with six sacrifice flies this season.
• Stanford won its first three Pac-12 series for the first time since 2008 when the Cardinal finished third at the College World Series (won first five that year).
Closing the Door
• Stanford’s bullpen has an ERA of 2.68 and opponents are hitting just .215.
• The reserves also have 149 strikeouts (compared to 74 walks and 118 hits) in 154.2 inn
• Seven different pitchers have an ERA under 2.00 coming out of the bullpen this year.
• Stanford is 18-2 when leading after seven innings this season.
T6: Bases loaded, nobody out? No problem for @tthorne23. Enters in relief & needs just 2 batters to get 3 outs pic.twitter.com/MYqeMFGhmG
— Stanford Baseball (@StanfordBSB) May 4, 2016
Stanford in the Show
• Six Cardinal made Opening Day rosters, and AJ Hinch began his second season as manager of the Houston Astros.
• Here is a full list of Stanford alums in the show: http://stanford.io/23yl6W6
Great first week of @MLB! Six Cardinal were on Opening Day rosters! #StanfordMLB rundown » https://t.co/aqvmB3pipm pic.twitter.com/2bLPXqR0fc
— Stanford Baseball (@StanfordBSB) April 11, 2016
Pac-12 Pitchers of the Week
• Stanford won the first two Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week awards this season.
• Colton Hock earned the award on March 1 after throwing 5.2 scoreless innings in relief in the longest recorded shut out in the program’s history (since 1959)—Stanford won at #23 Texas, 1-0 in 12 innings, on Feb. 25. Hock finished with a career-high eight strikeouts and allowed just three hits.
• Tristan Beck earned the conference honor in the first week—he was the first Stanford hurler to win the award since 2013 MLB first overall pick Mark Appel in May of 2013.
2016 Schedule
• 54 regular season games, 30 at Klein Field.
• More than half of the schedule (30/55, 54.5%) is against 2015 tournament teams.
• Cal (5), Texas (4), Cal St. Fullerton (3), UCLA (3), USC (3), Oregon (3), Oregon State (3), Arizona State (3), Vanderbilt (3).
• Though the preseason Top 25 rankings varied, each included at least 20+ games for Stanford against Top 25 opponents.
• 11-day break from March 7-17 for finals.
• Longest homestand was seven games and 20 days long (March 1-20).
• Longest road swing is four games (four times).
• First 11 games were played in 13 days.
• Eighteen Stanford baseball games will be broadcast on the Pac-12 Networks in 2016.
Last Time Out
• Freshman Tristan Beck shut down No. 10 Oregon State through seven innings, and Stanford led 2-1 heading to the ninth. But the Beavers scored two to walk off with a 3-2 victory in the series opener at Goss Stadium on Friday night.
• Junior starter Chris Castellanos and freshman reliever Kris Bubic combined to shut out Oregon State in a 6-0 road victory on Saturday afternoon. Four Cardinal finished with two hits each as Stanford scored three in the first and three in the seventh. It marked Stanford’s first shut out of Oregon State in 13 years and the first in Corvallis since 2002.
• In the series finale on Sunday, a rough first inning was too much to overcome as the Cardinal fell in the rubber match, 11-4. Oregon State scored five in its first at-bat. Stanford answered back with three in the fifth, but the hosts scored two more in the seventh and four in the eighth for the final margin.
• On Tuesday, Stanford scored four in the fourth and led 6-1 after seven, but San Francisco plated five in the eighth to tie the game. Duke Kinamon, who set a career high with three hits, beat out an infield single to bring home the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth to give the Cardinal a 7-6 mid-week win at Sunken Diamond.
Up Next
• Stanford hosts a mid-week matchup with Santa Clara before a trip to Salt Lake City to take on the first-place Utes, May 13-15.