Iron Chef Brett Mooneyham clearly has not let his kitchen mishap affect his pitching skills.
Clearly in control of the game, Mooneyham went the distance and pitched eight strong innings, giving up only one run.
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So we swept Cal this weekend. That means they didn’t beat us at anything this year that involved playing baseball. Isn’t that awesome? We think so.
Anyhow, here’s some important things so you can see us on TV. We look cool on TV.
Now that you’re all excited for us and stuff, the next big event after the postseason is the MLB Draft, which is a week from now. Less than that, even, since it starts on Monday. So maybe some of these boys will become professionals in something other than neuroscience.
Yeah, clever headline, right? Okay, we know, not really.
Stephen Piscotty's face says it all. Photo by the awesome Zach Sanderson.
Basically, after four innings, our Friday starter, Mark Appel, had given up six runs to Long Beach State’s formidable lineup. He settled down afterward and ended up going 6.2 innings in total, but he struggled out of the gate and things didn’t go too well. There were also twelve Stanford men left on base. We like to sarcastically call those LOBsters. That means they are edible. Not really. Please don’t go and put butter on our baseball team and serve them with garlic cheese biscuits.
On the bright side, Jake Stewart made a great catch in center field and Stephen Piscotty had three hits. Tyler Gaffney also impersonated Ike Davis, but that didn’t work out the way it typically does for Ike.
An awesome photo-laden recap will come from Mac later, as well as something really neato involving a boy named Elliott who pitches for us. So keep tabs on us.
OH! Announcement, too! The weather is still being mean to us, so today’s game against those dirtbaggy Dirtbags will be at 5:30 PST. If you haven’t noticed lately, Mother Nature absolutely hates us this season and apparently doesn’t want us to play, so she literally rains on our parade. We really don’t know what we’ve done wrong, so we’re thinking of scooting on up to Berkeley and making a ritual sacrifice of a really creepy-looking bear mascot. That ought to fix it, right?
Although it was overshadowed by a couple of other awesome wins (softball had a walk-off, and the women’s basketball team seniors are now officially undefeated on their home court), the baseball team had a nice, solid win last night, too.
It was really a low-scoring affair, with Stanford winning it 3-2. They picked up their first run in the first when sophomore wunderkind Kenny Diekroeger grounded out, bringing Jake Stewart home from third. Two more runs were tacked on in the 4th on a Tyler Gaffney home run. One inning later, Daniel Cepin drove the two UC Davis runs in, but that was pretty much the extent of the enemy’s scoring for the night.
And you can credit that to Cardinal pitching. Mark Appel started the game and went two scoreless, and then Jordan Pries picked up where Appel left off, throwing through the 7th inning. Both UC Davis runs were on Pries’ watch. Chris Reed pitched the 8th and 9th, and he was virtually spotless, striking out 3 of the 7 batters he faced and stranding some baserunners.
The nerdy kids with the tree are back in action against Santa Clara today at home. You can catch ‘em at 1 pm PST, which means Steph will have to check in with them at 4 pm EST.
