STANFORD BASEBALL RELEASE April 24, 2007 Contact: Kyle McRae Office: (650) 725-2959 Cell: (650) 544-5617 Email: [email protected] Website: gostanford.com (website) *Fresno State, Oregon State and Santa Clara also coming to Sunken Diamond 2007 SCHEDULE/RESULTS 16-20, 2-10 (PAC-10) Stanford Starts Six-Game Homestand 11-9 (H), 5-11 (A), 0-0 (N) Versus San Jose State Tuesday Date Day Opponent (TV) Result/Time FEBRUARY SAN JOSE STATE SPARTANS (24-17) 2 Fri. at No. 14 Cal State Fullerton L, 5-11 3 Sat. at No. 14 Cal State Fullerton L, 5-6 at 4 Sun. at No. 14 Cal State Fullerton L, 10-12 9 Fri. Fresno State ppd., weather STANFORD CARDINAL (16-20) 10 Sat. Fresno State^ W, 9-2 11 Sun. Fresno State W, 6-4 Tuesday, April 24 – RHP Spencer Snodgrass (2-2, 4.03) vs. RHP Austin Yount (2-0, 6.10) 13 Tue. Rikkyo - Japan (Exhibition) W, 5-1 16 Fri. at No. 14 Texas1 L, 3-5 LIVE GAME COVERAGE 17 Sat. at No. 14 Texas1 L, 2-5 Audio Broadcast: KZSU (90.1 FM)/gostanford.com/KZSU.org (Alex Gyr) | 18 Sun. at No. 14 Texas1 W, 10-8 20 Tue. San Francisco W, 4-1 Gametracker: gostanford.com 23 Fri. Kansas W, 6-5 24 Sat. Kansas W, 4-1 STANFORD-SAN JOSE STATE SERIES HISTORY 25 Sun. Kansas W, 7-6 MARCH All-Time Series: Stanford 80-30 2 Fri. California W, 1-0 2007 Results: Series – Stanford 1-0 (at San Jose State, March 27) – Stanford 8-3 3 Sat. California W, 5-4 4 Sun. California W, 9-7 (10) 6 Tue. at Santa Clara L, 5-13 2006 Results: Series – Stanford 2-0 (at San Jose State – Blethen Field, April 8) 9 Fri. No. 20 USC L, 8-11 10 Sat. No. 20 USC L, 1-2 Stanford 13-3; (at Stanford, May 2) Stanford 6-2 11 Sun. No. 20 USC W, 14-9 Current Game Win Streak: Stanford – 8 (April 15, 2003 – March 27, 2006) 24 Sat. Sacramento State L, 0-6 Current Series Win Streak: Stanford – 2 (February 11-14, 1983 – February 22-23, 1985) 25 Sun. at Sacramento State W, 10-0 27 Tue. at San Jose State W, 8-3 (10) Current Regular Season Series Win Streak: Stanford – 4 (2003-06) 30 Fri. UCLA* L, 2-8 Series Notes: Stanford has dominated the series between the two South Bay 31 Sat. UCLA* L, 11-16 APRIL rivals of late with its current eight-game win streak versus the Spartans, including 1 Sun. UCLA* L, 4-10 an 8-3 victory in 10 innings in San Jose earlier this season on March 27. The 5 Thu. at No. 15 Arizona State* L, 4-5 Spartans last victory over the Cardinal came with a 12-0 blanking of the Cardinal at 6 Fri. at No. 15 Arizona State* L, 8-12 7 Sat. at No. 15 Arizona State* (FSNAZ) L, 1-14 San Jose Municipal Stadium on May 1, 2002. Four of Stanford's eight straight wins 10 Tue. at Nevada W, 9-4 have been in San Jose. Stanford also has a six-game home win streak over the 13 Fri. No. 13 Arizona* L, 1-8 14 Sat. No. 13 Arizona* L, 1-15 Spartans with the last San Jose State victory at Sunken Diamond coming with a 15 Sun. No. 13 Arizona* W, 6-3 4-1 Spartan triumph on February 29, 2000. 17 Tue. Santa Clara L, 3-6 20 Fri. at California* L, 0-3 21 Sat. at California* W, 4-3 22 Sun. at California* L, 5-13 TUESDAY STARTS SIX-GAME HOMESTAND 24 Tue. San Jose State 6 pm Stanford's game versus San Jose State at Sunken Diamond on Tuesday 25 Wed. Fresno State 3 pm 27 Fri. No. 8 Oregon State* (FSN) 7 pm begins a busy six-game homestand over the next eight days. The Cardinal 28 Sat. No. 8 Oregon State* (CSTV) 1 pm will also welcome Fresno State (Wednesday, April 25, 3 pm, PT), Oregon 29 Sun. No. 8 Oregon State* 12:30 pm MAY State (Friday-Sunday, April 27-29, 7 pm, 1 pm, 12:30 pm, PT) and Santa 1 Tue. Santa Clara 6 pm Clara (Tuesday, May 1, 6 pm, PT). The homestand will conclude a stretch of 5 Sat. at Washington State* 5:30 pm 6 Sun. at Washington State* 2 pm 10 of 13 games at home. 7 Mon. at Washington State* 12 pm 11 Fri. Washington* 6 pm 12 Sat. Washington* 1 pm 13 Sun. Washington* (CSTV) 1 pm LOOKING TO CONTINUE MID-WEEK SUCCESS 15 Tue. at Santa Clara 6 pm Stanford has been moderately successful in mid-week games this season 18 Fri. Pacific 6 pm 19 Sat. at Pacific 3 pm with a 3-2 record in five tries. The Cardinal has been victorious against San 20 Sun. Pacific 1 pm Francisco (February 20), at San Jose State (February 27) and at Nevada 22 Tue. UC Davis 6 pm 25 Fri. at USC* 7 pm (April 10), while falling twice to Santa Clara (at Santa Clara, March 6; vs. 26 Sat. at USC* 1:30 pm 27 Sun. at USC* 1 pm Santa Clara, April 17). JUNE 1-4 F-M NCAA Regionals TBA 8-11 F-M NCAA Super Regionals TBA CATCH THE CARDINAL ON TV 15-25 F-M College World Series2 TBA *Pac-10 Game; ^Game completed on February 11 due to Stanford has three upcoming games to be televised live beginning with suspension due to weather on February 10;1The Dell Diamond, back-to-back contests versus Oregon State this Friday and Saturday to be Round Rock, TX; 2College World Series, Omaha, NE; All Home Games In Bold At Sunken Diamond; Rankings are by Baseball televised live by CSTV and Fox Sports Net, respectively. CSTV will also America and at time of game televise a contest against Washington on May 1. Stanford Baseball (Champions • 2 CWS, 5 Super Regional, 14 Regional, 20 Pac-10) 1 PAC-10 STANDINGS (THRU 4/23/07) FIRST HALF OF PAC-10 PLAY DONE Stanford has concluded the first half of its Pac-10 schedule with a 2-10 Team Pac-10 GB Overall conference mark and currently sits in last place in the league standings. Arizona State 10-2 --- 32-10 Ironically, Stanford was also in last place in the conference standings (3-9 UCLA 8-1 0.5 22-16 Arizona 9-3 1.0 31-9 record) at the midway point of the 2006 league schedule but bounced back Washington 6-6 4.0 20-18 with an 8-4 record in the second half of the league play to finish 1-131 and Oregon State 4-5 4.5 31-8 tie for fifth in the Pac-10 standings. The second half of last season earned California 5-7 5.0 21-20 Stanford a spot in the 2006 NCAA Division I Baseball Championships to USC 4-8 6.0 21-20 Washington State 3-9 7.0 19-18 extend the program's postseason streak to 13 straight years. Stanford Stanford 2-10 8.0 16-20 then won the NCAA Austin Regional and knocked out defending national champion Texas in the process before being eliminated by eventual College THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE/RESULTS World Series champion Oregon State at the NCAA Corvallis Super Regional. Tuesday, April 24 Oregon State at Portland (3 pm, PT) San Jose State at Stanford (6 pm, PT) SERIES LOSING STREAKS CONTINUE UCLA at UC Riverside (6 pm, PT) Cal State Fullerton at USC (7 pm, PT) Stanford has dropped five straight series overall as well as five consecutive Gonzaga at Washington State (5:30 pm, PT) series dating back to the final conference series of 2006. The current overall Wednesday, April 25 series losing streak includes each of the team's four 2007 Pac-10 series Hawaii at Arizona State (5 pm, MT) Fresno State at Stanford (3 pm, PT) versus UCLA (sweep), at Arizona State (sweep), against Arizona (2-of-3) and at California (2-of-3) to begin conference play and a non-conference Thursday, April 26 Washington at Utah Valley State (6 pm, PT) home set to USC (2-of-3). Stanford hasn't won a series since sweeping Friday, April 27 California at Sunken Diamond in a three-game non-conference set March Arizona at UCLA (6 pm, PT)* 2-4. Stanford's five series Pac-10 losing skid includes the same four 2007 Arizona State at California (2:30 pm, PT)* Oregon State at Stanford (7 pm, PT)* -- CSTV conference series as well as the final league series of 2006 at UCLA with the Washington State at USC (7 pm, PT)* Washington at Utah Valley State (6 pm, PT) team's last Pac-10 series win coming with a road sweep at Washington (May 12-14, 2006). Both streaks are the program's longest since Stanford lost its Saturday, April 28 Arizona at UCLA (2 pm, PT)* final five series of 1993 (all Pac-10) as well as its first non-conference series Arizona State at California (1 pm, PT)* Oregon State at Stanford (1 pm, PT)* -- FSN of 1994 to extend its overall series losing streak to six before winning its first Washington State at USC (1:30 pm, PT)* 1994 conference series to stop that skid. Washington at Utah Valley State (12 pm, PT) Sunday, April 29 Arizona at UCLA (1 pm, PT)* Arizona State at California (1 pm, PT)* LOSING SKIDS OVER Oregon State at Stanford (12:30 pm, PT)* Although Stanford still has two long series losing streaks going, Stanford has Washington State at USC (12 pm, PT)* *Pac-10 Game been able to end three long losing streaks recently.