A.J. Vanegas pitches against the St. Mary's College Gaels. (Photo: Mac)
Tuesday afternoon, the Cardinal team ventured to Moraga, Calif. to face the Gaels at St. Mary’s College of California.
RHP A.J. Vanegas pitched five strong innings, giving up only three hits and allowing no runs.
The Card offense proved, once again, that they can get things done.
Except for the part where there are four more hits.
Danny Sandbrink, A.J. Vanegas, Scott Snodgress and Chris Reed combined to hold San Jose State to four hits and two runs last night, which was more than enough to hold their opponents off. Stanford pushed one run across in the first and four more in the second, in doing so securing an easy 5-2 victory on the day.
Oh, and Kenny Diekroeger got another hit. That’s fifteen games now, if you’re keeping track.
Conference play is continuing this weekend as Stanford heads south to play USC. This means we’re supposed to win, I think. So let’s do that.
Dean McArdle is undefeated, everyone! He came pretty close yesterday, though.
McArdle couldn’t escape the first inning, giving up four runs and being chased from the game. A.J. Vanegas took over for him and pitched a solid 4.1 innings – a career-best – to keep the Card in it. They ended up getting McArdle off the hook, picking up one run in the second and four runs in the third, and adding one in the sixth to answer an LBSU score in that inning. Therefore, they won 6-5 and it was good. The winning pitcher was Scott Snodgress, who relieved Vanegas and threw 1.1 innings, and Chris Reed followed him to seal the deal.
Stanford’s offensive star of the game was actually LBSU’s third baseman Michael Hill, who made two timely errors that ended up allowing quite a few runs for the Cardinal. Stephen Piscotty also had a two-run single in the third to kick off the four-run rally.
Stanford plays next against Saint Mary’s on Tuesday at Sunken before heading off to Washington State to kick off Pac-10 play. Stuff’s about to get real.
