Well, things are going quite nicely on our end.

We’ll get to that in a minute, though. First, let’s talk about the game that happened before ours: Michigan State and Fresno State.

Both teams swapped runs early in the game – by the end of the first inning, it was 2-2, and the score stayed that way through five until Fresno State’s Trent Garrison broke through and drove in a run in the sixth on a two-out double. Fresno State tacked on another run in the seventh (the fourth run they scored with two outs in this game), then survived a scare in the bottom of the inning when the Spartans had two men on but failed to score.

Oh, and then there was a triple play. Strange things were happening tonight at Sunken – there was an oddity in the Stanford game, too. But we’ll get to that later. Fresno State scored a run before that triple play, then added three more in the top of the ninth to make the score 8-2. That was the final. Michigan State is done for the year with a 37-24 record.

And then…it was our turn.

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This greeted me this morning when I went to the Stanford website to prepare my recap for you all. I squealed with happiness over the sheer adorableness of it.

On a night when Jim Harbaugh was at the game watching us, we basically decided to haul ass, winning 11-4.

The stars of the game were the brothers Diekroeger – Kenny and Danny each had two RBIs in the contest. Only Stephen Piscotty had more in the game with three of his own on two hits, but the fact that both siblings were playing sort of overshadowed that. Everyone loves when siblings play together, right?

(Ironically, this makes me miss my younger brother. I’ll see him in a couple of weeks, but still.)

We’re off to Oregon for a three game set this weekend, so wish us luck. Hopefully, we’ll play better against their baseball team than against their football team, which is extremely good.  Fingers crossed, fellow smart people!

(If you want to buy that picture of Kenny and Danny, it’s on sale here.)