Back at Sunken

STANFORD, Calif. - Baseball is back. No. 17 Stanford returns from a 12-day break to take on Utah in its Pac-12 opener at Sunken Diamond this weekend. All three games can be seen on the Pac-12 Networks.
 

Promotions
» A #FinalSeas9n seat cushion, commemorating head coach Mark Marquess, is Saturday's giveaway.
» Sunday marks free ice cream, kids run the bases after the game, and post game autograph session with select players.
» List of 2017 game-by-game promotions

All-time vs. Utah
» Overall Record: 11-5 (.688)
» First meeting was exactly 52 years from the series opener this week. On March 24, 1965, in the Marine Tournament in San Diego, California, Stanford won, 7-0. 
» Last season, the teams split the first two games, and Utah won the finale, 8-3.
» In the last visit to Sunken for the Utes, Stanford won the series with victories in the first two games (10-6 and 8-4) before Utah salvaged the finaled (11-3).
» Stanford swept Utah in Salt Lake City to end the 2014 regular season and help clinch a bid to the NCAA Regionals.

Current Cardinal Against the Utes
» Junior Chris Castellanos is 2-0 with a 1.64 ERA in three appearances, two starts and 11.0 inn against Utah. 
» In three appearances, junior Colton Hock has a 1.80 ERA in 5.0 innings (5 K's) vs. Utah.
» Senior Jack Klein is a career .304 hitter (7-for-23)with 8 RBI, HR and 5 runs in eight career games against the Utes.
» Junior Beau Branton is 4-for-12 (.333) against Utah, and is one of just two Cardinal hitting better than .300 (min 4 AB) vs. the Utes.

Home Sweet Home 
» Stanford is 8-1 at home this year and has won 15 of the last 16 at Sunken Diamond. 
» Stanford has outscored opponents 38-15 at home this year.
» Stanford has a .988 fielding percentage on its home field (opponents at .974).
» Opponents are hitting just .157 at Sunken this year.
» Stanford's ERA is 1.54 at home and opponents ERA is 4.06.
» Stanford had a 12-game home win streak between 2016-17—longest since a 16-game streak in 2004—snapped by Texas on March 2. Stanford won next three games of series.
 

?? homestand. Eight wins in 10 days #GoStanford??

A post shared by Stanford Baseball?? (@stanfordbsb) on Mar 4, 2017 at 8:12pm PST

Stanford Stats 
» Earlier this year against Cal Poly and Kansas, Stanford's pitching had a string of 27.0 scoreless innings & allowed just two runs in a span of 40 innings. 
» Stanford is 11-2 this year when they score at least one run.
» Stanford is 9-0 this year when scoring more than three runs and has won 12 straight games when scoring that many.
» Stanford is 31-2 (.939) since the start of last season when allowing two or fewer runs. 
» The Cardinal is 31-4 (.886) when out-hitting its opponent since 2016.
» Stanford has won eight of its last nine day games.
» 17 of Quinn Brodey's 19 RBI this year have come with two outs.

Stanford Streaks 
» Stanford has won the last nine games started by Chris Castellanos (last loss, 4/23/16).
» Junior Matt Winaker has played in 84 straight games. The last time he did not enter Coach Marquess' lineup was April 28, 2015 vs. SJSU). 
» Winaker went 79 straight games without an error before commiting his first since May 3, 2015 at Oregon. Prior to a fielding error at Rice, he had been perfect on 698 consecutive chances. For his career, Winaker has made just three errors in 122 games and 1,048 chances (.997 fielding percentage).
» Junior Quinn Brodey has started 80 consecutive games for the Cardinal — last time he was not in starting lineup was May 5, 2015 vs. Santa Clara.

Back-2-Back
» Junior Quinn Brodey earned back-to-back Pac-12 Baseball Player of the Week honors on March 7 and March 14. Brodey was the first player to win the award in back-to-back weeks since Washington State's Brian Wolfe in 2014, and the first Stanford player to do so since Jon Schaeffer in 1997. 
» The week prior, Brodey was named Player of the Week, while roommate and junior reliever Colton Hock was named Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week. Brodey had walk offs in two straight games and the game-winning RBI in three consecutive games—all in 24 hours —to lead Stanford to a four-game series win over Texas. Both walk offs came with two outs. In that same 24-hour span, Hock went 2-0 with a 0.00 ERA in 5.0 innings, including a win in Game 1 of Saturday's doubleheader and a save in the nightcap.

Back-to-Back

Congrats on a 2nd straight @pac12 Player of the Week award, @quinnbrodey2 https://t.co/vJGt9lG4Z0#GoStanford pic.twitter.com/fMjhgYQAy9

— Stanford Baseball (@StanfordBSB) March 14, 2017

Last Time Out
» The Cardinal had its Pac-12 bye week last weekend and just wrapped up Finals week at Stanford. This 12-day break is the longest of the year, and the 25-day stretch on The Farm is the team's longest without a road game (next on the road at USC, April 6-8).
» In its last series opener, Quinn Brodey had 7 RBI and a grand slam to help lead Stanford to a 16-6 win over Rice on March 9.
» On Friday, Stanford was held to just three hits in a 4-0 defeat.
» Saturday was a washout in Houston, so the two teams played a doubleheader on Sunday. Stanford led 1-0 after three, but fell 12-2 in the opener. In the seven-inning nightcap, Chris Castellanos and Colton Hock combined for the shut out to give the Cardinal a 2-0 victory and a road series split.

Note before reading: It is the fourth inning.

Brodey's 7 RBI are the most by a Stanford player since April 2, 2011 (Brian Ragira vs. WSU)

— Stanford Baseball (@StanfordBSB) March 10, 2017

Up Next
» The Cardinal continues an eight-game homestand with a three-game set against Oregon State and mid-week matchups with Cal and Long Beach State.  
» Stanford, which last traveled on March 9-12 (at Rice), will not be back on the road again unitl April 6-8 at USC and will not have another flight until the trip to Oregon, April 21-23.