Duke Drops Series to Stanford Saturday

Saturday, March 15

Stanford, CA

5 p.m.

Duke University

12-8, 2-3

Stanford

14-3, 4-1

Duke

Stanford

Duke Drops Series to Stanford Saturday

3/15/2025 10:24:00 PM | Baseball

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STANFORD, Calif. – Duke baseball (12-8, 2-3 ACC) dropped its first ACC series on Saturday afternoon, as Stanford's (14-3, 4-1 ACC) Rintaro Sasaki hit a walk off three-run home run in the bottom of the eighth to run-rule the Blue Devils on Saturday, 11-1.

Junior Andrew Healy was pegged with the loss, working 3.2 innings and allowing six runs, five earned on five hits. The Cardinal opened the scoring in the bottom of the second inning, dropping four runs on the Blue Devils in the frame.

Duke responded with traffic on the basepaths in the top of the third inning, as Tyler Albright hit a sacrifice fly to center field to score Wallace Clark from third, 4-1. Stanford continued to pile on offensively, adding two in the fourth, two in the fifth, and three in the eighth.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Stanford opened the scoring in the bottom of the second inning, 4-0.
Duke responded in the top of the third inning, as Tyler Albright hit a sacrifice fly to center field to score Wallace Clark from third, 4-1.
The Cardinal added to their lead in the bottom of the fourth inning, 6-1.
Stanford added to its lead in the bottom of the fifth inning, 8-1.
The Cardinal walked off the game in the bottom of the eighth inning, 11-1.

NOTES

Senior Wallace Clark extended his reached base streak to 20 games, finishing the day 1-for-4 with a run scored.
Graduate Jake Hyde led the Blue Devils offensively on Saturday, posting a 2-for-3 day with a double and a walk. Hyde collected his third multi-hit campaign of the season at Stanford.
Junior Andrew Healy started for the Blue Devils on Saturday, working 3.2 innings, allowing five hits, six runs, five earned, walked one, and struck out a pair. Healy falls to 1-2 on the season.

QUOTES

"The biggest thing today is we can't turn what should have been a one-run inning into a four-run score, and then we are playing uphill. If you limit that inning to a one-run inning, even if they run a ball or two out of the ballpark and swung it well today, you keep the game within striking distance. You can manage your bullpen a little bit differently. As a mature team, an older team, we have to do a better job of making unforced errors. Three unforced errors in the second inning turned it into a four-run frame. I told our guys, 11-1, 5-1, we have to come back tomorrow and make sure we are in the moment and leave here with a win." – Head coach Chris Pollard on his thoughts at Stanford Saturday.

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