LEADING OFF
- Stanford will honor legendary head coach Mark Marquess, who passed away on January 30, 2026, throughout the 2026 season with "9" jersey patches, helmet stickers and an outfield wall decal at Sunken Diamond ... stole six bases in the season opener vs. No. 24 Arizona (February 13), but has swiped just one base over the last seven games (1-for-5 over the span) ... was picked to finish 10th in the ACC standings according to the league’s coaches after finishing 13th a year ago ... has missed the NCAA Tournament in each of the last two seasons, but has not gone more than two straight years without reaching the postseason since a 13-season stretch from 1968-1980 ... has made 19 College World Series appearances, including having reached Omaha in three of the last five seasons ... 19 appearances are ninth-most in the nation ... finished the 2025 season with a 27-25 overall record and an 11-19 conference mark ... hit .297 as a team with 329 runs scored (6.33 per game), 90 doubles, 10 triples and 64 home runs a year ago ... homered in all but 16 games last season ... pitched to a 6.42 ERA with 430 strikeouts in 451 1/3 innings ... averaged 8.57 strikeouts per nine innings
- Charlie Bates has multiple hits in five of the first eight games this year ... was listed as the preseason No. 19 shortstop in the nation according to D1Baseball and No. 31 on Perfect Game's Preseason Top 100 Sophomores list
- Philip Cheong was No. 98 on Perfect Game's Preseason Top 100 Freshmen list
- Nick Dugan was listed as the preseason No. 108 starter in the nation according to D1Baseball and No. 46 on Perfect Game's Preseason Top 100 Seniors list
- Ethan Hott has reached in all five of his games with an at bat this year, and seven straight games dating back to the end of the 2025 season
- Aidan Keenan was listed as the preseason No. 120 starting pitcher in the nation according to D1Baseball
- Brock Ketelsen was listed on the Baseball America Preseason Freshman of the Year watch list and No. 18 on Perfect Game's Preseason Top 100 Freshmen list
- Luke Lavin has reached in all seven of his games played this season to stretch his reached base streak to 13 games dating back to the end of the 2025 season
- Tatum Marsh was listed as the preseason No. 40 outfielder in the nation according to D1Baseball
- JJ Moran has hit safely in each of the first eight games this season
- Jimmy Nati was named NCBWA Preseason All-America second team, is listed as the preseason No. 10 second baseman in the nation according to D1Baseball and is No. 100 on Perfect Game's Preseason Top 100 Seniors list
- Brady Reynolds was listed as the preseason No. 100 outfielder in the nation according to D1Baseball
- Rintaro Sasaki was listed as the preseason No. 38 first baseman in the nation according to D1Baseball ... was selected in the first round of the 2025 Nippon Professional Baseball Draft by the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
- Brock Sell was listed on the Baseball America Preseason Freshman of the Year watch list and No. 9 on Perfect Game's Preseason Top 100 Freshmen list
THIS WEEK
- Stanford will welcome Japan's Waseda University to The Farm on Wednesday for an exhibition game
- First pitch between the Cardinal and Bears is set for 3:30 p.m.
- Wednesday's game will be streamed live on ACCNX and will also be broadcast live on KZSU 90.1 FM
UP NEXT
- After the exhibition game with Waseda, Stanford will host Fresno State for three games this weekend
- Friday and Saturday are slated for 2:05 p.m. first pitches, while the three-game set will conclude on Sunday at 1:05 p.m.
- The Cardinal's nine-game homestand will conclude on Monday against Nevada with a 1:05 p.m. first pitch
UPCOMING PROMOTIONS
- Sunday vs. Fresno State will be our first Sunday Runday of the year, so kids 8th grade and under can run the bases after the game (weather permitting)!
- Fans can pick up a St. Patrick's Day inspired hat on Sunday, March 15, vs. Pitt, while supplies last! Fans are also encouraged to stick around for autographs on the concourse after the game!
A LOOK BACK
- Stanford split a four-game weekend series with longtime rival Cal State Fullerton last week, winning the second and fourth games in the set
- Cal State Fullerton won the opener 4-2 before the two teams each won a game 4-3 to split a doubleheader on Saturday
- The Cardinal, which walked off with the doubleheader game one victory on an RBI-double from Luke Lavin in the bottom of the ninth on Saturday, managed a series split on Sunday, earning a 3-2 comeback victory
- The final three games of the series were decided by one run
- The Cardinal hit just .183 in the series with the Titans, but did receive four runs, a double, a homer and two RBIs from sophomore JJ Moran
- Lavin finished the series hitting .375 with the walk-off winner, while sophomore Charlie Bates batted .333 with two runs scored, a double and a go-ahead RBI-triple in the seventh to complete the comeback on Sunday
- Stanford's pitching staff impressed, posting a 2.75 ERA with 35 strikeouts
- Junior Aidan Keenan tossed six scoreless innings while allowing just one hit in the first game of the doubleheader on Saturday, while sophomore Parker Warner worked 5 2/3 innings on Sunday, allowing two runs (one earned) with six strikeouts
- Trevor Moore and Toran O'Harran each made two appearances in the series, with each earning a victory and O'Harran converting the save on Sunday ... Moore struck out six batters in his 3 1/3 innings of work against the Titans
TIGHT GAMES EARLY
- Five of Stanford’s eight games this season have been decided by one run and the Cardinal is 2-3 in those contests
- Each of Stanford's last three games have been decided by one run
- A total of 15 runs have decided the eight games this year with the largest margin of victory being five runs (11-6 Stanford win vs. Nebraska on February 16)
OPENING WEEKEND NOTES
- Including a 10-7 victory over No. 24 Arizona this year, Stanford is 51-16-1 overall on Opening Day since 1959 and has won seven of its last 11 games to open a season
- Stanford opened the 2025 season against Cal State Fullerton for the fourth straight season and 12th time since 2000 (13th time overall) ... with a four-game sweep last year, Stanford is now 8-4 in the 12 season-opening series (24-13 overall record) since 2000
- The Cardinal has played 28 opening weekend series of three-or-more games since 1959 and is 19-9 in those series ... Stanford has compiled a 58-28 record over the 86 games in those sets
2025 SEASON IN REVIEW
- Beginning its tenure in the Atlantic Coast Conference, Stanford finished the 2025 season with a 27-25 overall record and an 11-19 conference mark
- The Cardinal navigated what proved to be a hot-and-cold campaign, beginning the season 9-0 for the first time since opening the 2018 campaign at 10-0 ... Stanford’s torrid start continued into ACC play as the Cardinal took two-of-three at No. 4 North Carolina before sweeping Duke to improve to 15-3 through 18 contests and earn a No. 14 national ranking according to D1Baseball
- Experiencing a drastic shift in momentum, the Cardinal suffered a sweep at the hands of California in ACC play ... those three losses proved to be the start of an 11-game conference skid as the Cardinal battled preseason No. 2 Virginia, No. 25 Georgia Tech and No. 4 Clemson along the way ... series losses to Notre Dame and Wake Forest followed from there, but the Cardinal rebounded to take two-of-three at Boston College and No. 13 NC State to close out the conference slate
- Stanford was swept in four series of three-or-more games last year for just the third time in program history (also swept four times in 1980 and 2015)
- The Cardinal's final victory at NC State was No. 800 in Clarke and Elizabeth Nelson Director of Baseball David Esquer’s illustrious head coaching career
- The Cardinal hit .297 as a team with 329 runs scored, 90 doubles, 10 triples and 64 home runs ... averaged 6.33 runs per game
- Stanford compiled a string of 16 straight games with a home run from February 16 to March 16 (29 home runs over the span) - the longest streak of games with a homer since belting 52 homers in an 18-game span from May 1 - June 3, 2022 ... Stanford homered in all but 16 games last season
- The Cardinal pitched to a 6.42 ERA with 430 strikeouts in 451 1/3 innings ... averaged 8.57 strikeouts per nine innings
- Trevor Haskins was the lone Cardinal drafted in the 2025 MLB Draft, selected in the 15th round by the St. Louis Cardinals
- Following a standout freshman campaign, Tatum Marsh was named Freshman All-America second team according to Baseball America, NCBWA and Perfect Game
OUR AUSSIE IS A PRESEASON ALL-AMERICAN
- Jimmy Nati was tabbed a Preseason All-American according to National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, landing on the publication’s second team
- Stanford's starting second baseman a year ago, Nati was named a finalist for the ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove at the conclusion of the season
- Nati started all 52 games for the Cardinal last year, posted a .980 fielding percentage and batted .300 with 45 runs scored, nine doubles, a team-best 16 home runs and a team-leading 50 RBIs while slugging a team-best .581 with a .367 on-base percentage
PRESEASON FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR WATCH LIST
- Freshmen Brock Ketelsen and Brock Sell have been listed on Baseball America’s Preseason Freshman of the Year watch list
- Ketelsen, the 2025 West Coast League Top Prospect, is a two-way player who will see action as a left-handed pitcher and outfielder
- Sell, ranked 55th on Baseball America’s Top 500 draft prospects entering last year’s draft, is a versatile player who can play all across the diamond
- This season marks the first that Baseball America has officially named preseason collegiate national award winners and preseason award watch lists
- According to the publication, the Freshman of the Year race is defined less by résumé and more by immediate impact, projection and how quickly a player asserts himself at the college level ... the players listed represent early standouts entering their first Division I seasons, offering a snapshot of freshmen positioned to make an immediate mark while also carrying long-term upside ... amateur track record served as the primary evaluation factor for preseason inclusion, with tools, role opportunity and feedback from professional evaluators also considered
- Mississippi State lefthander Jack Bauer was named Baseball America Preseason Freshman of the Year
CALIFORNIA KINGS
- Stanford is the winningest Division I program in California since the 2017 season, compiling 321 victories
- UC Santa Barbara has won 313 games since 2017, followed by UCLA (311), UC Irvine (306) and Sacramento State (274)
GOODBYE PAC-12, HELLO ACC
- The 2024 season was Stanford's final in the Pac-12 conference, as the Cardinal joined Bay Area rival California as new members of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2025
- Stanford was one of the oldest members of the Pac-12 Conference, joining the then Pacific Coast Conference, founded in 1915, for the 1918 season
- The Cardinal won 21 Pac-12 titles, with the first coming in 1924 and the last in 2023
- The ACC sent nine teams to the NCAA Tournament in 2025, including Louisville to the College World Series
- A national-best five ACC baseball programs competed in the Super Regional round with three teams earning the right to host
- The ACC has placed at least one team in each of the last 19 College World Series and at least six teams in each of the last 21 NCAA Tournaments
CARDINAL TABBED 10TH IN PRESEASON POLL
- Preparing for its second season in the ACC, Stanford was picked to finish 10th in the conference standings according to the league’s 16 head coaches
- The Cardinal, which has made a trip to the College World Series in three of the last five seasons, is looking for a bounce-back year after missing the NCAA Tournament the last two seasons ... has not gone more than two straight years without reaching the postseason since a 13-season stretch from 1968-1980
- Georgia Tech was selected as the 2026 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball preseason favorite, collecting seven of the possible 16 first-place votes to garner 237 total points
- Just one point separated Georgia Tech and second-place finisher North Carolina, who logged 236 points and six first-place votes
- Also earning first place votes were Florida State (one) and Clemson (two)
- The Seminoles finished third in the poll, logging 221 points, while Louisville, who represented the ACC in the 2025 Men’s College World Series, finished fourth with 196 points
- Clemson’s two first-place votes propelled them to a fifth-place projection, totaling 185 points
- NC State was slotted sixth in the coaches’ poll, with 169 points, just ahead of Virginia, who was projected to finish seventh with 165 points
- With 159 points, Miami was picked to finish eighth, while Wake Forest was projected to finish ninth with 145 points and Stanford 10th with 99 points
- Stanford was followed by Virginia Tech (89), Notre Dame (87), Duke (67), Pitt (45), California (41) and Boston College (35)
- The ACC has placed at least one team in each of the last 19 College World Series, including Louisville in 2025, and at least six teams in each of the last 21 NCAA tournaments
- Eight ACC baseball teams began the season in the D1Baseball Preseason Top 25, led by Georgia Tech at No. 4 ... the Jackets were followed by No. 8 Louisville, No. 11 North Carolina, No. 16 Florida State, No. 17 NC State, No. 19 Clemson, No. 21 Wake Forest and No. 22 Miami
ACC BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
- The 2026 ACC Baseball Championship will be held Tuesday, May 19, through Sunday, May 24, at Truist Field in Charlotte, N.C.
- ACC Network will be on hand for the first five days of the tournament with ESPN2 set to carry Sunday’s championship game
- All 16 teams in the ACC will compete in a single-elimination championship
- The top four seeds in the championship will be based off the performance in the regular season and will receive a double-bye into the quarterfinal round, which is scheduled to be held on Thursday and Friday ... seeds five through eight will earn a bye into Wednesday’s second round ... seeds 9-16 will begin play with four first-round games on Tuesday
- The single-elimination championship format will feature four games per day on Tuesday (first round) and Wednesday (second round) ... two quarterfinal games will take place on both Thursday and Friday, while Saturday will host the two semifinal contests ... Sunday will host the championship game
MARSH READY FOR YEAR TWO FOLLOWING FRESHMAN ALL-AMERICA SEASON
- Tatum Marsh was recognized by Baseball America, NCBWA and Perfect as a Freshman All-America second team selection following a standout first season on The Farm
- Marsh appeared in 50 of Stanford’s 52 games, including starting 49, reached base safely in all but two of his games played and hit safely in all but nine contests with an at bat
- Marsh led the team with a .377 batting average, and aided by a team-best 19 hit-by-pitches, also paced the Cardinal with a .459 on-base percentage while scoring a team-high 47 runs and collecting a team-best 13 doubles, two triples, three home runs and 25 RBIs
- The native of San Jose, Calif. ranked second on the team with 20 multi-hit games while batting .376 with 21 runs scored, six doubles, two homers and 16 RBIs in ACC play
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
- Often considered one of the most beautiful college baseball facilities in the country, Klein Field at Sunken Diamond is the home to Stanford baseball
- The “Sunken Diamond” name comes from the excavation to provide fill for the earthen berm within which Stanford Stadium was built in 1921, leaving a large, sunken field
- The fixed seating capacity at Sunken Diamond is 2,113 ... with the addition of ADA seating and general admission lawn seating, the total capacity of the facility is 4,000
- The original dimensions were 360 feet to left field, 350 to right field, and 500 feet to center field ... in 1978, a new seven-foot high fence was installed, bringing the dimensions to the current 335 to both left and right fields, and 400 to center field ... the outfield fence was increased to 10 feet in 1995
- Sunken Diamond features ample foul ground from first to third base, with home plate sitting approximately 70 feet from the backstop
FAMILY ON THE FARM
- Stanford has a handful of players on this year's roster with ties back to The Farm
- Trevor Moore's father, Tim, played baseball at Stanford in 1992 and was a fifth-round pick of the Chicago White Sox that season
- Ben Reimers' father, Tom, played baseball at Stanford from 1994-96 and helped the Cardinal to a conference title in 1994 and a trip to the College World Series in 1995 ... was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 15th round of the 1996 MLB June Amateur Draft
- Teddy Tokheim's mother, Trish McGonigle, played golf at Stanford from 1985-87 and was a 1987 WGCA Academic All-American
- Charlie Bates' first breath was literally taken on The Farm, born at Stanford Hospital in 2005
- The Cardinal also features a pair of brothers on this year's roster as Tatum and Quinten Marsh will suit up as a sophomore and freshman, respectively
BASEBALL COACHING ENDOWMENT CELEBRATES KATHY WOLFF
- Thanks to a gift from an anonymous donor family, an endowed assistant coach position pays tribute to Kathy Wolff - a longtime administrative associate for more than two decades to Stanford's baseball and women's volleyball programs
- Thomas Eager was named the inaugural Kathy Wolff Assistant Baseball Coach prior to the start of the 2022 season
- Often considered the "heart and soul" of the baseball program, Wolff was hired as an administrative assistant in the marketing department in 1985 ... the native of Palo Alto began working with the baseball program in 1987, later adding administrative duties with the women's volleyball program
- Wolff, who saw the Cardinal win two national championships during her first two seasons with the program, helped coordinate 11 trips to the College World Series in Omaha ... the beloved member of the Stanford Baseball family was busy coordinating another College World Series trip when she passed away on June 11, 2008 ... the Cardinal honored Wolff that year by wearing "KW" patches on its sleeves throughout the College World Series run
- In addition to helping the program recruit and retain the best coaching staff, the endowed assistant coaching position recognizes the influence that Wolff still has on the athletics department today ... Stanford's Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation (DAPER) annually recognizes a staff member with the Kathy Wolff Award for best exemplifying her spirit—a passion for Stanford and an ongoing desire to help and support his/her colleagues ... in the week leading up to baseball season every year, the athletics department celebrates Cake Week—a time when staff members are encouraged to continue Wolff's tradition of bringing in baked goods to enjoy together
HOME OF CHAMPIONS
- Stanford is the all-time leader with 137 NCAA team championships (70 men, 67 women), and 173 national championships overall
- The Cardinal owns the most recognizable streak in college athletics, having won at least one NCAA team title during each of the last 49 seasons, dating back to the 1976-77 campaign
- The Cardinal has also produced 565 NCAA individual champions and 658 overall
- Stanford has won the Learfield Directors’ Cup in 26 of the possible 31 seasons, including a 25-year streak from 1995-2019
#OLYMPIANSMADEHERE
- Less than two months after starting at defender in the 2025 College Cup final for the Stanford women’s soccer team, sophomore Sammy Smith has achieved her lifelong goal of making an Olympic team ... Smith earned a spot as a member of the U.S. Olympic Cross Country Ski Team ahead of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games, which got underway February 6 ... Smith’s selection to the national team is extremely rare, if not, unprecedented: a current Division I varsity student-athlete competing for the national team of a different sport within the same academic calendar year ... a native of Boise, Idaho, Smith is believed to be Stanford’s first American varsity student-athlete to also participate in a Winter Olympics since Bonny Warner, a member of the Cardinal’s field hockey team from 1982-84 who competed for Team USA’s luge squad in 1984, 1988 and 1992 ... Stanford’s most recent Team USA Winter Olympian was Rachael Flatt, a figure skater who competed in the 2010 Games and graduated in 2015
- Stanford concluded the 2024 Paris Olympic Games with a school-record 39 medals, shattering its previous best while cementing its reputation on the world’s biggest stage as the nation’s top collegiate program
- The 39 medals were 12 more than the previous record of 27 at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games
- Stanford’s haul of 39 medals (12 gold, 14 silver, 13 bronze) was the most by any school at one Olympics
- Cardinal student-athletes medaled in 13 of Stanford's 36 varsity sports: artistic swimming, women’s basketball, women’s fencing, men’s gymnastics, sailing, men’s rowing, women’s soccer, women’s swimming and diving, men’s track and field, men’s volleyball, women’s volleyball, men’s water polo, women’s water polo
- The Cardinal boasted 19 first-time medalists - a total that ranks second in school history behind the 21 at the 2008 Beijing Games
- If Stanford was a country in the 2024 Games, it would have finished tied with Canada for 11th place
- Boasting a school-record 59 Olympians with Cardinal ties, Stanford won at least 20 medals for the sixth time in school history (2020, 2016, 2008, 1996, 1924)
- The Cardinal’s 59 Olympians (20 male, 39 female) represented 14 countries across 20 varsity sports
- In addition to the 59 qualifiers, Stanford’s Olympic representation also included five alternates, one national team head coach and three national team assistant coaches
- For the third straight Olympics, Stanford totaled more Team USA selections (37) than any other school, reinforcing its status as the preeminent training ground for U.S. national team competition
- Stanford has won 128 medals combined over the last five Summer Games
- All told, Stanford’s affiliates have captured 335 overall medals (162 gold, 93 silver, 80 bronze) from 196 medalists, and the Cardinal has produced at least one medalist in every Olympics in which the U.S. has competed since 1912