Duke Clipped by Stanford Friday

Friday, March 14

Stanford, CA

9 p.m.

Duke University

12-7, 2-2

Stanford

13-3, 3-1

Duke

Stanford

Duke Clipped by Stanford Friday

3/15/2025 1:47:00 AM | Baseball

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STANFORD, Calif. – Duke baseball (12-7, 2-2 ACC) fell to Stanford (13-3, 3-1 ACC) on Friday evening, 5-1 at Klein Field at Sunken Diamond. Graduate Reid Easterly was pegged with the loss, working 0.2 of an inning and allowing four runs.

Duke opened the scoring in the top of the third inning, as Wallace Clark doubled to right field to score Jake Hyde from third, 1-0. The Blue Devils pitching staff no-hit the Cardinal for 4.2 innings before the first Stanford hit tied the ballgame in the bottom half, before piling on four runs on six hits in the bottom of the sixth inning, 5-1.

Stanford's pitching limited Duke to just one baserunner down the stretch, as Jake Berger laced a double off the wall in right center field in the bottom of the ninth.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Duke opened the scoring in the top of the third inning, as Wallace Clark doubled to right field to score Jake Hyde from third, 1-0.
Stanford tied the ballgame in the bottom of the fifth inning, 1-1.
The Cardinal took the lead in the bottom of the sixth inning, 5-1.

NOTES

Friday on the farm marked the first ACC baseball contest in the state of California.
Senior Wallace Clark extended his reached base streak on Friday, collecting a double in the third inning. Clark has now reached base safely in all 19 games this season.
Friday's loss snapped a four-game winning streak for the Blue Devils, tying the longest of the season.
Junior Aidan Weaver made his second start of the season and the first on the weekend at Stanford. Weaver worked one inning and allowed no hits, escaping two walks in his outing.
Junior left-hander James Tallon worked two innings in relief of Weaver, allowing no hits and striking out a pair.

QUOTES

"We just spent too big of a chunk of the ballgame not on time with the fastball. We had plenty of opportunities where we got our fastball. We either missed it, we were late on it, or we took it. That was the difference in the ballgame. We pitched well enough to put ourselves to win on a Friday night. I am not taking anything away from Stanford, they have great arms. Scott is going to be a first rounder, but we got a lot of fastballs in counts where we were ready for them, and we didn't get on time with them. I thought we started to make that adjustment in the ninth and we need to carry that over and make sure we are on time for it tomorrow." – Head coach Chris Pollard on his overall thoughts about game one of the series.

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