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STANFORD BASEBALL RELEASE May 25, 2007 Contact: Kyle McRae Office: (650) 725-2959 Cell: (650) 544-5617 Email: [email protected] Website: gostanford.com (website) *Cardinal has won six of last seven games overall 2007 SCHEDULE/RESULTS 25-28, 6-15 (PAC-10) Stanford To Wrap Up 2007 Season 17-15 (H), 8-13 (A), 0-0 (N) At USC Friday-Sunday Date Day Opponent (TV) Result/Time FEBRUARY STANFORD CARDINAL (25-28, 6-15) 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 USC TROJANS (27-26, 8-13) 10 Sat. Fresno State^ W, 9-2 11 Sun. Fresno State W, 6-4 13 Tue. Rikkyo - Japan (Exhibition) W, 5-1 CURRENT SERIES 16 Fri. at No. 14 Texas1 L, 3-5 Friday, May 25 (7 pm, PT) – LHP Jeremy Bleich (2-8, 5.50) vs. RHP Brad Boxberger (3-5, 2.99) 17 Sat. at No. 14 Texas1 L, 2-5 Saturday, May 26 (1:30 pm, PT) – RHP Erik Davis (4-2, 3.86) vs. RHP Ryan Cook (7-3, 4.64) 18 Sun. at No. 14 Texas1 W, 10-8 Sunday, May 27 (1 pm, PT) – TBA vs. LHP Tommy Milone (3-6, 5.85) 20 Tue. San Francisco W, 4-1 23 Fri. Kansas W, 6-5 LIVE GAME COVERAGE 24 Sat. Kansas W, 4-1 Audio: KZSU (90.1 FM)/gostanford.com (Alex Gyr) | Gametracker: gostanford. 25 Sun. Kansas W, 7-6 com | Webcast: usctrojans.com MARCH 2 Fri. California W, 1-0 3 Sat. California W, 5-4 STANFORD-USC SERIES HISTORY 4 Sun. California W, 9-7 6 Tue. at Santa Clara L, 5-13 All-Time Series: 2007 Results: Series – USC 2-1 (Non-Conference at Stanford, 9 Fri. No. 20 USC L, 8-11 March 9-11) USC 11-8, USC 2-1, Stanford 14-9 10 Sat. No. 20 USC L, 1-2 2006 Results: Series – USC 4-2 (Non-Conference at USC, March 10-12) Stanford 11 Sun. No. 20 USC W, 14-9 24 Sat. Sacramento State L, 0-6 7-6, USC 16-7, USC 7-2; (Conference at Stanford, April1DH-2) Stanford 9-7 (DH 25 Sun. at Sacramento State W, 10-0 Game 1), USC 3-2 (DH Game 2), USC 6-1 27 Tue. at San Jose State W, 8-3 (10) Current Game Win Streak: Stanford – 1 (March 11, 2007) 30 Fri. UCLA* L, 2-8 31 Sat. UCLA* L, 11-16 Current Series Win Streak: USC – 4 (May 27-29, 2005 – March 9-11, 2007) APRIL Current Regular Season Series Win Streak: USC – 1 (2006) 1 Sun. UCLA* L, 4-10 5 Thu. at No. 15 Arizona State* L, 4-5 Series Notes: USC is the only opponent on the 2007 Stanford schedule that leads 6 Fri. at No. 15 Arizona State* L, 8-12 the all-time series over the Cardinal. The Trojans have also had a tremendous 7 Sat. at No. 15 Arizona State* (FSNAZ) L, 1-14 amount of success over Stanford recently with four consecutive series victories, 10 Tue. at Nevada W, 9-4 13 Fri. No. 13 Arizona* L, 1-8 taking two-of-three in each of the four sets. Prior to USC's recent resurgence 14 Sat. No. 13 Arizona* L, 1-15 versus the Cardinal, Stanford had been dominating the action between the two 15 Sun. No. 13 Arizona* W, 6-3 17 Tue. Santa Clara L, 3-6 clubs. The Cardinal had won the previous seven regular season three-game sets 20 Fri. at California* L, 0-3 as well as eight consecutive season series from 1997-2004 while posting a 41- 21 Sat. at California* W, 4-3 14 record in 55 games against the Trojans beginning with the 1997 season and 22 Sun. at California* L, 5-13 24 Tue. San Jose State L, 8-11 running through the first three-game series of the 2005 campaign. 25 Wed. Fresno State W, 7-2 27 Fri. No. 8 Oregon State* (CSTV) L, 7-13 28 Sat. No. 8 Oregon State* (FSN) W, 9-7 (11) 29 Sun. No. 8 Oregon State* L, 6-8 RED HOT: SIX-OF-SEVEN, THREE IN A ROW MAY Stanford is currently playing some of its best baseball of the season with 1 Tue. Santa Clara L, 8-16 5 Sat. at Washington State* (FSNNW) W, 6-4 wins in three straight games and six of its last seven. The Cardinal started 6 Sun. at Washington State* L, 6-8 the stretch with a three-game win streak, getting a pair of victories over 7 Mon. at Washington State* L, 2-4 11 Fri. Washington* L, 5-7 Washington (May 12, May 13) followed by a win at Santa Clara (May 15) 12 Sat. Washington* W, 8-6 before losing the opener of a three-game series versus Pacific (May 18). 13 Sun. Washington* (CSTV) W, 10-7 15 Tue. at Santa Clara W, 14-4 The Cardinal bounced right back with wins in the final two games of a three- 18 Fri. Pacific L, 7-13 game set versus Pacific (May 19-20) and against UC Davis (May 22).The 19 Sat. at Pacific W, 11-2 20 Sun. Pacific W, 10-5 pair of three-game win streaks are tied for Stanford's second-longest streak 22 Tue. UC Davis W, 4-3 (13) of the year and its longest since the Cardinal won a season-high eight in a 25 Fri. at USC* 7 pm 26 Sat. at USC* 1:30 pm row from February 18 - March 4. 27 Sun. at USC* 1 pm *Pac-10 Game; ^Game completed on February 11 due to suspension due to weather on February 10;1The Dell Diamond, Round Rock, TX; All Home Games In Bold At Sunken PUSH TO FINISH .500 Diamond; Rankings are by Baseball America and at time of Stanford can finish an even .500 (28-28) and extend its string of .500 plus game seasons to 14 in a row with a three-game series sweep at USC this Friday- Sunday. Stanford's last losing season came when the club was 27-28 and failed to qualify for the postseason in 1993. Stanford Baseball (Champions • 2 CWS, 5 Super Regional, 14 Regional, 20 Pac-10) 1 PAC-10 STANDINGS (THRU 5/24/07) CHANCE TO GET OUT OF THE CELLAR Stanford is currently in last place in the Pac-10 with a 6-15 conference Team Pac-10 GB Overall record that is 2.0 games behind the 8-13 marks posted by both this week's Arizona State 19-4 --- 43-12 opponent USC and Oregon State. A sweep of the Trojans would assure the Arizona 14-9 5.0 39-15 UCLA 13-8 5.0 29-24 Cardinal would not finish in the cellar. Stanford has finished at the bottom California 11-10 7.0 28-24 of the Pac-10 just twice in 30 previous seasons under current head coach Washington 9-12 9.0 27-26 Mark Marquess, tying for fifth in a six-team league with a 13-17 conference Washington State 10-14 9.5 27-24 record in 1979 and taking sixth of six teams with a 10-20 mark in 1993. Oregon State 8-13 10.0 36-16 USC 8-13 10.0 27-26 Stanford 6-15 12.0 25-28 TWO SERIES IN A ROW Stanford has won each of its last two series versus Washington (March 11- THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE/RESULTS 13) and Pacific (May 18-20) despite losing the opener in both series. Monday, May 21 at California 6, USC 3* Tuesday, May 22 RUBBER GAME WIN STREAK at Stanford 4, UC Davis 3 (13) Stanford has been victorious in each of its last two series rubber games Wednesday, May 23 versus Washington (May 13) and Pacific (May 20) after losing its first three at Arizona State 8, Arizona 5* USC 8, at UC Santa Barbara 1 rubber game of the campaign. Stanford has played rubber games in each of Thursday, May 24 its last five three-game series after having not playing any in its first nine. at Arizona State 8, Arizona 7* Friday, May 25 Arizona at Arizona State (1 pm, MT)* PLAYING WELL ON CAMERA California at Washington (6:30 pm, PT)* Stanford has won each of its last three TV games over Oregon State Oregon State at UCLA (6 pm, PT)* Stanford at USC (7 pm, PT)* (April 28, FSN), at Washington State (May 5, FSN Northwest) and versus Washington State at UC Davis (2:30 pm, PT) Washington (May 13, CSTV) after losing its first two TV games of the Saturday, May 26 campaign at Arizona State (April 7, FSN Arizona) and versus Oregon State California at Washington (2 pm, PT)* Oregon State at UCLA (2 pm, PT)* (April 27, CSTV). Stanford does not have any of its seven remaining regular Stanford at USC (1:30 pm, PT)* Washington State at UC Davis (1 pm, PT) season scheduled to be televised. Sunday, May 27 California at Washington (1 pm, PT)* Oregon State at UCLA (12 pm, PT)* SERIES OPENER PROBLEMS Stanford at USC (1 pm, PT)* Stanford's 6-4 win in a Pac-10 series opener at Washington State on May 5 Washington State at UC Davis (1 pm, PT) --- END OF REGULAR SEASON --- is the only time in seven conference series this season the Cardinal has won the opener.