Washington Drops Series Opener At Stanford

Friday, February 21

Stanford, CA

2:05 PM

University of Washington

2-3

Stanford

5-0

Washington

Stanford

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By: UW Athletic Communications

STANFORD, Calif. – The Huskies played a strong defensive game against the undefeated Cardinal at Sunken Diamond, but ultimately fell 2-0 to Stanford in the first game of a four-game series on Friday afternoon.

Washington moves to 2-3 on the season while Stanford improves to 5-0.

Stanford scored a solo home run on the first pitch of the game, but was unable to generate much more offense through the contest thanks to sound pitching and defensive work from the Huskies. Stanford's second run came on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fifth inning.

The Cardinal has been one of the best offenses in college baseball so far this season, scoring nine or more runs in three of its first four games before facing Washington.

Max Banks made his second start for the Huskies, again throwing 6.0 innings. This time, he allowed two runs and struck out two batters, while also walking four batters.

Washington's ace is averaging 6.0 IP and has a 1.50 ERA through his two starts this season.

The Husky batters combined for four hits on the day, including two doubles coming from Jackson Hotchkiss and Colton Bower. It was each players' second double of the season.

In the sixth and seventh innings, the Huskies advanced runners to second and third base, but on both occasions, Washington couldn't find the finishing blow to drive in the runs. The Dawgs finished the day with six runners left on base.

Jackson Thomas, Saywer Parkin, and Jase Evangelista each pitched in the game after Banks finished his day. The trio combined for two scoreless innings, no walks, and four punchouts, including a strikeout from Parkin to end the seventh inning with the bases loaded.

Washington returns to action against the Cardinal on Saturday at 2:05 p.m. Right-handed pitcher Reilly McAdams will be on the mound for the Huskies, facing off against Stanford left-handed pitcher Christian Lim.

DAWG BITES

Across two starts, Max Banks is averaging 6.0 IP, 5.5 Ks, and has a 1.50 ERA
Washington held a potent Stanford offense to two runs on Friday. Their previous low score was six, with an average of 10.5 runs per game
AJ Guerrero and Carson Crawford made their season debuts on Friday afternoon. Guerrero notched his first hit of the season, a single in the sixth inning
Monday's win against Saint Joseph's was Washington's first multi-home run game of the season (Bower, Taggart)
10 of Washington's 19 RBIs have come from transfer players (Casen Taggart - 5, Trevor Kole - 2, Malakhi Knight – 2, Julian Sanders – 1)
The top four spots of the batting order are responsible for 14 of 22 runs and 17 of 26 hits
Three players are batting over .300 (Bower - .308, Kole - .333, Knight - .333)
14 Huskies have made their program debuts through four games (Banks, Bujacich, Crawford, Curran, Gilbert, Henning, Hotchkiss, Knight, Kole, Nichols, Taggart, Thomas, Tims)