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Stanford Evens Series With 7-2 Win Over UW
May 08, 2004 | Baseball
May 8, 2004
SEATTLE - Despite a 57-minute rain delay in the fifth inning, Stanford sophomore Jeff Gilmore threw seven strong innings to lead the top-ranked Stanford baseball team to a 7-2 win over No. 16 Washington Saturday at Husky Ballpark.
Gilmore, a righty from Huntington Beach, Calif., improved to 8-2 with the win. He allowed two runs on six hits, walking two and fanning eight. Sophomore Jed Lowrie hit three doubles to lead the Cardinal offense.
The win evened the three-game series at a win apiece as Stanford (37-7 overall, 11-3 in the Pac-10) moved back to a one-and-a-half game lead over the Huskies (27-15-1, 11-6) in the Pac-10 standings. The UW won Friday's series opener, 3-2, in 10 innings.
Washington took the game's first lead with a run in the third. Taylor Johnson singled to lead off and eventually came around on a sacrifice fly from Zach Clem. The UW had a chance for a second run when Greg Isaacson tried to score from second on a Kyle Larsen single, but he was thrown out at the plate by center fielder Sam Fuld.
Stanford answered in the top of the fourth. Chris Minaker led off with a single and scored when Jed Lowrie doubled off the top of the wall in right-center field. A Danny Putnam single and a walk to Donny Lucy loaded the bases with no outs and the Cardinal took a lead when Brian Hall bounced into a double play, sending home Lowrie to make it 2-1.
Shortstop Nick Batkoski led off the bottom of the fourth with his second home run of the season, tying the score at 2-2.
Stanford took the lead back in quick fashion. Reliever Trent Baysinger, on to begin the top of the fifth, hit Jim Rapoport with a pitch. Chris Lewis followed with a single and Rapoport scored on a Sam Fuld sacrifice fly. A 57-minute rain delay followed the sacrifice fly and when play began again, Minaker hit the first pitch to him up the middle for an RBI single, scoring Lewis.
The Cardinal tacked on a fifth run in the sixth when Hall scored on a single from Sam Fuld. In the seventh, a bases-loaded walk to DH Chris Carter forced in a sixth Stanford run. The Cardinal wrapped up the scoring when pinch runner Cameron Matthews scored on a squeeze play in the ninth.
Baysinger (3-3) suffered the loss, allowing four runs (three earned) on seven hits over three and two-thirds innings of relief.
The Huskies and Cardinal decide the series Sunday with a 1:00 p.m. game. KKNW AM-1150 will carry the live radio broadcast. UW freshman Tim Lincecum will start for the Huskies while Stanford's starter has yet to be announced.
LINESCORE Pac-10 Conference #1 Stanford 7, #16 Washington 2 Stanford 000 221 101 -- 7 13 1 Washington 001 100 000 -- 2 6 3 Matt Kasser, Trent Baysinger (5), Richie Lentz (8)3 and Ben Johnson. Jeff Gilmore, David O'Hagan (8) and Donny Lucy. W - Gilmore (7-2). L - Baysinger (3-3). 2B - STAN, Jed Lowrie 3. HR - UW, Nick Batkoski (2). T - 3:03. A - 1,222. Records: STAN 37-7, 11-3 Pac-10; UW 27-15-1, 11-6 Pac-10.
