After having been drafted in the 42nd round of the 2011 round by the San Francisco Giants, Stanford senior right handed pitcher Danny Sandbrink begun his professional baseball career in the organization’s Arizona Rookie League team, the AZL Giants.

Sandbrink appeared in 15 games, all in relief. He pitched a total of 21 and 1/3 innings, allowing 3 home runs and 3 walks, while striking out 21. He gave up a total of 10 runs, though only 6 were earned.

Sandbrink’s record stands at 1-0 and looks to start the season in rookie league or A-ball.

In the 30th round, Jordan Pries was drafted by the Seattle Mariners. Your Fullerton Regional Most Outstanding Player was 6-5 on the season with a 3.24 ERA. He held opposing batters to a .263 average and struck out 74 to 30 walks.

In the 34th round, catcher Zach Jones was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 55 games played, he had a .261/.332/.414 line, 4 home runs, and 28 RBI. He allowed 23 stolen bases and caught 17 runners stealing. He finished the season with a 42% CS%.

LHP Brett Mooneyham was drafted by the Washington Nationals in the 38th round. He did not pitch this season because of an injury.

The San Francisco Giants drafted Danny Sandbrink in the 42nd round. He went 4-1 this season with a 3.39 ERA in 13 appearances, 8 of which were starts. He struck out 45 to 15 walks and held opposing batters to a .237 average.

Congratulations to all!

And Jord, feel free to drive around Palo Alto with the rest of the drafted and sing to pop songs.

This game…I’m not even sure what to say. We got 20 hits. Danny Sandbrink pitched well. We got 20 hits. The final score was 14-2. We got 20 freaking hits.

This, basically, is a lot farther than I expected these kids to go based on their regular season. Well done, boys.

Here is a depiction of our current ranking. Our power level is off the charts.

We went 1-3 at Arizona State. At least we won the second game.

Here’s the quick lowdown:

• Friday. 12-10 loss. ASU is ranked 9th in the nation right now. We led three times in this game and we probably should’ve won, though.
• Saturday. 6-4 win. Danny Sandbrink threw a complete game, the longest and best outing since his freshman year oh so long ago (he’s a senior now). Proud of you, Danny! Way to go! Five hits, eight strikeouts!
• Sunday. 7-1 slaughter loss. Jordan is just struggling mightily on the weekends lately. Maybe he really does pitch better on weeknights because on Mondays he sings in the car.

AND NOW…

Here’s Jordan’s rendition of Bulletproof on this Monday, since Osama bin Laden is clearly not bulletproof and is now dead. Consider this your Music Monday post today.

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.