Stanford Takes Series From Dirtbags

The Dirtbags had one win this past weekend in their three game series against the Stanford Cardinals baseball team.

The Cardinals jumped on the Dirtbags early Friday night, scoring two runs in the first inning. The Dirtbags came back quickly scoring two runs over two innings on RBI base hits from TJ Mittelstaedt and Derek Legg.

The Dirtbags would fail to produce any more offense the rest of the game, and after giving up a run in the fifth inning, lost the game 3-2.

Game two Saturday night was another close loss for the Dirtbags. Jake Thompson pitched a gem going 8.2 innings with eight strikeouts on six hits. Cardinal pitcher, Jordan Pries, matched Thompson with an eight inning outing, striking out nine and giving up two runs.

Thompson was one out away from a win whena walksetup up a two run homerun for a 3-2 Cardinal lead. TJ Mittelstaedt tied the game 3-3 in the bottom of the inning, but the Cardinals would get a run in the tenth edging a 4-3 victory.

It was a different story Sunday as the Dirtbags scored five runs in the second inning defeating the Cardinals in a 10-5 win.

Brennan Metzger, Kirk Singer and Jonathan Jones each had solo home runs in the game.

This past weekend games put the Dirtbags at 20-23 on the season, but because Stanford is out of Conference the games didn't count in league standings. In league the Dirtbags are 7-8.