STANFORD, Calif. – Hosting Waseda University in an exhibition game on Wednesday night, Stanford defeated the visiting Japanese team 11-3 from Sunken Diamond.
The result and the stats from Wednesday’s game will not count toward Stanford’s 2026 ledger.
Freshman Teddy Tokheim had two of the biggest hits in the game, collecting a pair of triples and five RBIs – the second of which drove in three in a six-run seventh inning that blew the game open.
Fellow freshman Brock Ketelsen homered in his second at bat, lacing a ball 420 feet out to right field. Cort MacDonald, Rashad Hayes and Sebastian David joined Tokheim with multi-hit games, as David finished 3-for-4. All three players doubled in the victory and Stanford, which utilizied a 10-batter lineup, finished the game with 13 hits.
The Cardinal used nine pitchers for one inning each in the exhibition, beginning with freshman Quinten Marsh. Marsh was followed by Dominic Panella, Austin Steeves, David Wiser, Andrew Shaw, Liam Golden, Sam Garewal, Ben Reimers and Mike Erspamer. Garewal and Erspamer recorded two strikeouts apiece as the Cardinal staff combined for nine punchouts.
Waseda starter Kotaro Yasuda pitched the first five innings and allowed five runs on six hits. Ryuichi Komatsu, Tsubasa Saso and Shiryu Saito each logged an inning in relief for the Bears.
Stanford scored four runs in the first inning – highlighted by a two-RBI triple from Tokheim – and never looked back in the victory.
Waseda scored single runs in the second, third and fourth innings to make it 4-3, but the Cardinal got the homer from Ketelsen in the fourth and plated six runs on five hits in the seventh to run away with the win.
The Cardinal will return to nonconference play this weekend when it hosts Fresno State for three games beginning Friday at 2:05 p.m.