STANFORD, Calif. – Four Stanford pitchers combined to post a 4-0 shutout victory over UC Davis on Monday as the Cardinal (18-12) snapped a three-game skid with the win over the Aggies (14-16) from Sunken Diamond.
Junior Nick Dugan got the start and was spectacular, allowing just two hits and one walk while striking out four over five innings to earn the victory and improve to 3-0 on the season.
Dugan gave way to Trevor Moore in the sixth, and Moore carried the torch for two shutout frames that included three strikeouts.
Junior Toran O’Harran worked a scoreless eighth with one strikeout before Aidan Keenan punched out a pair in a 1-2-3 ninth inning.
The Cardinal got all the run support it would need in the first two innings off UC Davis starter Braydon Wooldridge, scoring a pair of runs in each frame.
Trevor Haskins doubled to open the home-half of the first, moved to third on a ground ball to the right side, and scampered home on a wild pitch to make it 1-0. Junior Jimmy Nati homered with two outs in the first to extend the lead to 2-0 and run his season homer total to eight.
After a Tatum Marsh hit-by-pitch opened the second stanza, sophomore Luke Lavin wasted no time making the free pass hurt – launching the first pitch he saw over the wall in left field for an opposite-field home run. The round-tripper was the first of Lavin’s career and handed Stanford the 4-0 lead it would hold the rest of the way.
While the Cardinal pitching staff was busy hanging zeroes, UC Davis reliever Tyler Wood was matching them inning for inning on the other side. The right-hander took over in the third inning and allowed just one hit and two walks over the final six frames for the Aggies – the lone hit being a two-out single from Haskins in the eighth.
Wooldridge was charged with the loss for UC Davis and dropped to 0-1 after surrendering four runs on three hits, including the two homers, while striking out two over two innings.
Stanford will return to action on Friday when it begins a three-game ACC series at No. 4 Clemson. First pitch for the series opener is set for 3 p.m. PT and the game will air on ESPNU.
GAME NOTES:
- The shutout was Stanford’s third of the season and ended a three-game losing streak
- Stanford’s two-homer game snapped a string of three straight games without a homer … the Cardinal has homered in all but nine games this season
- Temo Becerra (0-for-1, 2 BB) had a seven-game hit streak snapped
- Trevor Haskins (2-for-4, R, 2B) has hit safely in all but four of his games played this season … posted his team-best 15th multi-hit game of the year
- Tatum Marsh (0-for-2, R, HBP) had a nine-game hit streak snapped, but with the hit-by-pitch has now reached in 26 straight … has been hit by 12 pitches this year
- Jimmy Nati (1-for-3, R, HR, RBI) has hit safely in all but three games this season … has contributed 14 extra-base hits (six doubles, eight home runs) … has driven in a run in all but nine games this season, including 10 of his last 14 overall
- Rintaro Sasaki (0-for-3) had a six-game hit streak end on Monday night