Utah Baseball Falls to Stanford, 5-1

Sunday, March 26

Stanford, Calif.

3:00 PM

University of Utah

10-11, 1-5

Stanford

13-6, 2-1

Utah

Stanford

Photo by: Dan Lofgren

3/26/2017 7:24 PM | Baseball

Box Score

PALO ALTO, Calif. - The Utah baseball team dropped game three of its series against Stanford, 5-1 on Sunday afternoon.

Stanford took an early 1-0 lead on an unearned run and Utah tied the game at 1-1 in the fifth inning off a solo home run from Zack Moeller. The Cardinal came back in the bottom of the inning for a run to take the lead and increased its lead with runs in the seventh and eighth innings.

Moeller had two of Utah's four hits on the day. Dallas Carroll reached base three times with a hit and two walks.

Riley Ottesen was strong on the mound in the loss, throwing 6 2/3 innings and allowing seven hits, three runs (two earned) with four walks and two strikeouts. Jacob Rebar, Trenton Stoltz, Tanner Thomas and Hunter Rodriguez all made appearances in relief.

Stanford got on the board in the first after a leadoff walk moved to third after an error following a stolen base, and the first run of the game scored on a ground out.

Utah had its first base runner of the game in the fourth on a Carroll single and Moeller put Utah on the board in the fifth.

The Cardinal had runners on base in every inning. Stanford quickly broke the tie in the fifth after a pair of singles led to a sacrifice fly. The Cardinal increased its lead in the seventh with two runs on two hits and two errors, and added an insurance run in the eighth after two hits and an error.

Utah put two on with one out in the seventh after Carroll walked and Moeller singled but a pair of pop ups got out of the inning. Dominic Foscalina singled to lead off the ninth and Carroll again walked to put two on with no outs before Stanford got three fly outs to end the game.

The Utes return home on Tuesday, March 28, beginning a four-game home stand against BYU at 6:00 p.m. MT. The game will be aired on the Pac-12 Networks with radio at ESPN 700.