Washington baseball blanked by Stanford 2-0 in series opener
Washington baseball blanked by Stanford 2-0 in series opener
The Washington Huskies fell to the Stanford Cardinal 2-0 in the opening matchup of a four-game series on the road at Sunken Diamond on Friday afternoon due to the heroics of Stanford third baseman Trevor Haskins and center fielder Charlie Bates.
In a game that saw just 10 combined hits, Bates and Haskins had five of them. The third baseman went 2-for 3, led off with a home run against Husky starter Max Banks, drove in Bates with a sacrifice fly in the fifth inning, and added a double in the third inning. The center fielder went 3-for-3 with three extra-base hits, two triples and a double.
Banks took the loss, his first of the season after working 6 innings and letting up 5 hits, 2 runs, and 4 walks with 2 strikeouts while Matt Scott was dominant for the Cardinal. In his second win of the season, Scott allowed just 4 hits and a walk over 6 innings with 10 strikeouts, as the Stanford pitching staff racked up 14 strikeouts in the ballgame.
The Cardinal staff kept third baseman Trevor Kole off the basepaths for the first time this season. The senior transfer from Florida Gulf Coast recorded two hits in each of his first three games with the Huskies and was walked three times in Washington's 12-9 win over Saint Joseph's in the final game of the Beach Tournament.
The loss dropped coach Eddie Smith's team to 2-3 on the season, while Stanford stayed undefeated and moved to 5-0. The two teams will play the second installment of their four-game set on Saturday afternoon at 2:05 p.m. PST.
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