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Top-Ranked Stanford Hosts San Jose State Tuesday Before STANFORD BASEBALL RELEASE May 4, 2004 CONTACT: Kyle McRae (650) 725-2959 (ph); (650) 725-2957 (fax) [email protected] (email) gostanford.com (website) 2004 SCHEDULE/RESULTS 35-6, 10-2 PAC-10 •Cardinal will enter series in Seattle 1.5 games ahead of Huskies 20-1 (H), 15-5 (A) Top-Ranked Stanford Hosts San Jose State Tuesday Before Date Day Opponent (TV) Result/Time Traveling To No. 21 Washington Friday-Sunday JANUARY 30 Fri. No. 4 Cal State Fullerton W, 16-3 31 Sat. No. 4 Cal State Fullerton W, 8-7 San Jose State (19-25-1) at No. 1 Stanford (35-6) FEBRUARY 1 Sun. No. 4 Cal State Fullerton W, 4-1 Tuesday, May 4, 6 pm RHP Jose Amaya (1-4, 4.34) vs. Matt Leva (3-0, 5.40) 6 Fri. at Fresno State L, 1-3 7 Sat. at Fresno State W, 13-4 8 Sun. at Fresno State W, 10-3 No. 1 Stanford (35-6, 10-2) at Washington (26-14-1, 10-5) 13 Fri. Kansas W, 7-1 14 Sat. Kansas W, 6-1 Friday, May 7, 6:30 pm LHP Mark Romanczuk (9-1, 3.82) vs. RHP Kyle Parker (2-2, 3.98) 15 Sun. Kansas W, 10-6 Saturday, May 8, 1 pm RHP Jeff Gilmore (7-2, 4.46) vs. RHP Matt Kasser (2-0, 7.86) 20 Fri. No. 6 Texas W, 7-4 Sunday, May 9, 1 pm TBA vs. RHP Tim Lincecum (5-1, 3.74) 21 Sat. No. 6 Texas L, 6-9 Media Coverage: Saturday’s game will be telecast live on Fox Sports Northwest with Jim Watson and Angie 22 Sun. No. 6 Texas W, 8-1 24 Tue. Rikkyo (Exhibition) W, 9-4 Mentink handling the play-by-play and analysis duties … All four Stanford Baseball games this week are scheduled 27 Fri. at California W, 12-9 to be broadcast on the air at KZSU (90.1 FM) as well as online at gostanford.com ... Sean Bruich and Chris Wheat 28 Sat. at California W, 10-3 will broadcast Tuesday’s game versus San Jose State, while Sam Stefanki will call the series Friday-Sunday at 29 Sun. at California W, 6-2 Washington ... A Gametracker with live stats will be available for all four games from a link at gostanford.com. MARCH 5 Fri. at USC W, 10-2 QUICK TEAM NOTES 6 Sat. at USC W, 8-7 (13) Stanford returned to the top spot in the latest of all four major college baseball national polls released on Monday, May 3 7 Sun. at USC L, 8-11 (Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball, NCBWA and Sports Weekly/ESPN) after winning all four of its games last week 23 Tue. at Saint Mary's W, 7-3 … The Cardinal, who spent two weeks (March 22 – 29) as the nation’s unanimous No. 1 squad earlier in the year and 24 Wed. at Santa Clara W, 18-4 was on top of the Baseball America poll for seven weeks (February 23 – April 5), had been ranked second in all four polls 26 Fri. Cal Poly W, 16-4 the previous three weeks … Stanford sits in first-place in the Pac-10 with a 10-2 conference mark and visits second-place 27 Sat. Cal Poly W, 3-1 Washington (10-5 Pac-10) in a key conference series this Friday-Sunday (6:30 pm, 1 pm, 1 pm, PDT) … The series not 28 Sun. Cal Poly W, 10-3 only features the first and second-place teams in the conference but also the two most prolific power clubs as the Cardinal 30 Tue. at San Jose State W, 5-0 leads the league with 71 homers and the Huskies are a close second with 66 … The 2004 Stanford team is only the APRIL second club in 111 seasons of baseball on The Farm to win at least 35 of its first 41 games … Only the 1967 club (35-5-1) 2 Fri. at UCLA* W, 11-4 posted a better record after 41 games … Stanford needs victories in each of its next two games to be able to claim the 3 Sat. at UCLA* W, 15-13 4 Sun. at UCLA* L, 5-6 best record in school history after 43 games as the 1967 team currently holds the mark by finishing their season at 36-6-1 8 Thu. at Oregon State* W, 11-8 … The Cardinal has won all 11 of its regular season three-game series this year, 15 in a row overall and 23 of its last 24 9 Fri. at Oregon State* L, 4-5 dating back to last season (Stanford did split a two-game series with Sacramento during the span from April 23-24, 2004) 10 Sat. at Oregon State* W, 16-4 ... Stanford has swept six of its 11 regular season three-game series this season and nine during its current 15-series win 13 Tue. Santa Clara W, 12-3 streak … Stanford has won a season-best 13 games in a row at home, has a 20-1 home mark this season and has won 16 Fri. California* W, 7-4 29 of its last 30 at Sunken Diamond beginning with a nine-game home win streak to end last season that turned into a 17 Sat. California* W, 9-2 16-game run when the Cardinal won its first seven contests at Sunken Diamond this season … Stanford is scheduled to 18 Sun. California* W, 8-3 play its last seven regular season games at home after playing six of its next eight games on the road … Stanford has also 20 Tue. Saint Mary's W, 10-5 won 29 of its last 34 true road games and is 15-5 away from Sunken Diamond this season despite a 3-3 mark in its last 23 Fri. Sacramento State W, 15-1 six road contests … All told, the Cardinal has a 58-10 record in its last 68 games dating back to May 5, 2003 ... Stanford 24 Sat. at Sacramento State L, 1-2 has come from behind in 15 of its 35 wins this year and is 5-6 when either tied (2-1) or trailing (3-5) heading into the ninth 27 Tue. at Santa Clara W, 12-8 (14) inning … Stanford is 5-1 this season against ranked teams and 2-0 in extra-inning contests … Stanford has been errorless 30 Fri. Washington State* W, 8-3 in 17 of its first 41 games … Stanford has more than doubled its opponents scoring (383-179) as 30 of its 35 wins have MAY been by three or more runs and the Cardinal is a perfect 20-0 in games decided by five or more runs ... Stanford’s last 1 Sat. Washington State* W, 13-11 three losses have been by one run as the Cardinal is 2-3 in one-run games … All six of Stanford’s losses have been by 2 Sun. Washington State* W, 17-3 (7) three runs or less … Stanford is leading the Pac-10 in all three major team categories with a .336 batting average, a 3.98 4 Tue. San Jose State 6 pm ERA and a .975 fielding percentage … Stanford is averaging 9.3 runs per contest and has posted double-digit runs 19 7 Fri. at No. 21 Washington* 6:30 pm times this year … The Cardinal has also reached double digits in hits on 33 occasions, including 16 of its last 17 contests 8 Sat. at No. 21 Washington* 1 pm … Stanford has hit 71 homers, including a season-high eight in its most recent game versus Washington State (5/2) and 9 Sun. at No. 21 Washington* 1 pm has a legitimate chance to break the school record of 102 hit by the 1997 club … Stanford is looking to extend its school 11 Tue. Santa Clara 6 pm record string of consecutive appearances at the College World Series to six, as well as its string of 40-win seasons to 10 15 Sat. at Arizona* 7 pm, MT … Stanford has also won 50 or more games in three of the last four seasons ... Stanford has captured 11 Pac-10 titles in 16 Sun. at Arizona* 7 pm, MT the last 21 years and finished either first or second in the conference 21 times in last 23 seasons. 17 Mon. at Arizona* 1 pm, MT 18 Tue. San Francisco 6 pm QUICK INDIVIDUAL NOTES 21 Fri. USC* 6 pm National Player of the Year candidate Jed Lowrie leads the Cardinal in nearly every offensive category – batting average 22 Sat. USC* 1 pm (.400), runs scored (55), doubles (12), triples (4), homers (14), RBI (54), extra-base hits (30), total bases (126), slugging 23 Sun. USC* 1 pm percentage (.788), bases on balls (33), on-base percentage (.500), sacrifice flies (5, co-leader), multiple-hit games (20, 28 Fri. No. 20 Arizona State* 6 pm shares team lead) and multiple-RBI games (16) … Brian Hall, who has hit safely in 25 of his last 26 games and is batting 29 Sat. No. 20 Arizona State* 1 pm a phenomenal .638 (30-47) in 12 Pac-10 games, is just behind Lowrie with a .399 batting average … Hall paces the club in 30 Sun. No. 20 Arizona State* 1 pm stolen bases (10) and co-leads the team in hits (65), while adding 11 doubles, two triples, nine homers and 46 RBI (second JUNE on the team) … Hall earned several Player of the Week honors (Louisville Slugger, NCBWA Hitter, Pac-10) on Monday 4-6 F-Su NCAA Regionals• TBA or Tuesday after hitting .909 (10-11) with two homers and eight RBI in Stanford’s three-game sweep of Washington State 11-14 F-M NCAA Super Regionals+ TBA (4/30 – 5/2) … Danny Putnam ranks second on the club in homers (12), third in batting average (.378) and fourth in RBI 18-28 F-M at College World Series^ TBA (42) … Jonny Ash ranks fourth in batting average (.374) … Donny Lucy is fifth on the club with a .365 batting average, *Pac-10 Game; •NCAA Regionals at TBA; +NCAA Super while contributing 10 homers and 37 RBI as he has hit safely in 16 of his last 17 games … John Mayberry, Jr.
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