Score: Stanford 6, UC Davis 5 (12 innings)
Location: Stanford, Calif. (Klein Field at Sunken Diamond)
Records: UC Davis 19-24, Stanford 22-19
THE SHORT STORY: UC Davis went toe-to-toe with Stanford for 12 innings before dropping a 6-5 decision on Monday night at Sunken Diamond, with the Cardinal walking off in the bottom of the 12th.
Braydon Wooldridge powered the Aggie offense with a 3-for-6 night and two RBI, and
Jaxon Murphy delivered a go-ahead RBI double in the top of the 12th to put UC Davis ahead 5-4. Six Aggie pitchers combined to allow just four earned runs across 11.1 innings against a Stanford lineup that was fresh off a series sweep of nationally ranked Florida State.
LEADING OFF
- Wooldridge finished 3-for-6 with two RBI, scored once and drove in two of UC Davis's five runs
- Murphy went 2-for-2 with a walk after entering as a pinch hitter, capped by an RBI double in the top of the 12th
- Tyler Howard added a 2-for-5 night with a walk and a run scored
- Mason Lerma struck out four in two innings of one-run relief on 40 pitches
- Carter Speights tossed two scoreless innings of one-hit ball with a strikeout on 28 pitches
- Grayson Bonanno worked three innings of one-run baseball, allowing three hits with no walks on 47 pitches in his start on the hill
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Stanford broke the scoreless tie in the third on a Cort MacDonald RBI groundout that plated Jimmy Nati for a 1-0 lead.
- UC Davis answered in the fourth when Wooldridge singled to left center to score McNeal and tie the game 1-1.
- The Cardinal retook the lead in the fifth as MacDonald singled to left center, scoring Nolan Stoll for a 2-1 advantage.
- UC Davis drew even in the seventh on a wild pitch that scored Wooldridge from third, with pinch hitter Eli Burnham advancing to third on the same pitch to tie the game 2-2.
- The Aggies grabbed their first lead in the eighth when Wooldridge's RBI groundout to second plated Lee for a 3-2 edge.
- Stanford tied the game in the ninth on Philip Cheong's RBI double down the left field line that scored Brock Sell.
- UC Davis pushed back ahead in the 10th as Mault came home from second on a wild pitch to make it 4-3.
- Stanford answered in the bottom of the 10th on JJ Moran's RBI single, plating Rashad Hayes to tie the game at four.
- Murphy delivered the go-ahead RBI double in the top of the 12th, scoring Howard for a 5-4 Aggie lead.
- Stanford walked it off in the bottom of the 12th, with Eric Jeon's RBI single tying the game and Moran's two-out RBI single to right-center scoring MacDonald for the 6-5 win.
UP NEXT
UC Davis returns to action later this week traveling to Cal on Wednesday, April 29 for its second matchup of the week with an ACC opponent, with first pitch set for 6:05 p.m. at Evans Diamond.
