Baseball: Bats cold once again as Card drops two to Oregon, slips in Pac-12 standings
Just when it looked like the Stanford baseball team was rolling again, the squad hit another rut.
Just when it looked like the Stanford baseball team was rolling again, the squad hit another rut.
It’s been almost a month since the No. 6 Stanford baseball team hosted a weekend series, but with No. 16 Oregon coming to town for a three-game set at Sunken Diamond, the squad is playing some of its best baseball at just the right time, riding a three-game win streak into tonight’s opener. Having played just two of its last nine contests on the Farm, the Cardinal (21-7, 4-5 Pac-12) will finally have a chance to improve on its 14-2 home record with seven straight matchups at Sunken Diamond against Oregon (21-9, 8-4), San Jose State and No. 21 Arizona State.
The No. 6 Stanford baseball team walloped Cal 19-6 in a nonconference showdown at Berkeley on Monday afternoon, pulling out the big bats to reach double digits for the sixth time this year and set a new season-high in runs.
Stanford baseball has exhibited a flair for the dramatic recently, and in clinching a series win at Washington this weekend, the No. 6 Cardinal needed all the late-inning drama it could get to earn a victory in the Saturday rubber game.
The No. 6 Stanford baseball team appears to have resumed its winning ways again. The Cardinal (18-6, 3-4 Pac-12) beat Washington (16-10, 3-4) 5-2… Continue Reading »
No one likes to be 10th in an 11-team conference, even just two weeks into the Pac-12 season. Yet that’s exactly where the No. 6 Stanford baseball team stands at the moment after four consecutive Pac-12 losses
In a wild, four-hour-and-15-minute contest that saw the Cardinal erase that five-run deficit, get the game-winning hit from sophomore Danny Diekroeger in just his fifth appearance of the season and rely on junior third baseman Stephen Piscotty to pitch — coming in not once, but twice — for the win, Stanford got a much-needed injection of energy in a 9-8 victory on the Farm.
Jack Mosbacher was a member of the Stanford baseball team from 2008-2011. Each week, he’ll take a look at the Cardinal’s ups and downs on… Continue Reading »