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North Carolina 5, Stanford 2: Game Notes
June 10, 2011 | Baseball
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North Carolina 5, Stanford 2
Chapel Hill Super Regional Game 1
Postgame Notes
· With the 5-2 win over Stanford in Game 1 of the Chapel Hill Super Regional, North Carolina picked up its 36th postseason win since 2006, leading the nation. Oregon State is currently second with 28, pending tonight's result against Vanderbilt in the Nashville Super Regional.
· Carolina has now won 15 straight postseason games it has hosted. The Tar Heels last lost as a host in game 2 of the 2007 Chapel Hill Super Regional (South Carolina, 8-6). Carolina has now won six straight Super Regional games, also dating back to game 2 of the 2007 Super Regional.
· In his last start at Boshamer Stadium, Patrick Johnson allowed one run on five hits over 7.2 innings while walking one and striking out seven. Johnson, who began the day in a four-way tie for sixth on the single-season strikeout list, has now struck out 120 batters in his senior campaign and is fifth on that list, one shy of tying Alex White
· Johnson also recorded his 300th career strikeout when he sat down leadoff batter Zach Jones in the first inning. Johnson is the third Tar Heel to accomplish that feat (Andrew Miller, 325; Alex White, 317) and now has 306 career strikeouts.
· Johnson exited with a 3-0 lead and a runner on first with two outs in the eighth. The runner at first would score later in the inning, ending a 30.2 inning scoreless streak for Johnson. Over that period, Johnson is 4-0 has allowed one run on 12 hits over 30.2 innings for a 0.29 ERA. Johnson has struck out 35 and walked only four over that period.
· Dating back to an April 27 relief appearance at ECU, Johnson has now earned a win in seven straight appearances and has allowed three earned runs in 45 innings of work for a 0.60 ERA.
· Sophomore Michael Morin earned his ninth save of the season, allowing a run over 1.1 innings of relief. The run ended a streak of 7.2 consecutive scoreless innings of relief by Morin, dating back May 14 at Georgia Tech.
· With his ninth save, Morin enters Carolina's top-ten list for a single season. Morin is now tied for ninth on that list (Matt Danford, 2005; Gordon Douglas, 1986).
· Carolina scratched for the game's first run when Ben Bunting plated Jesse Wierzbicki in the second inning with an infield single. The RBI marked the senior's 16th NCAA Tournament RBI of his career, which is the most on the Tar Heels' current roster.
· Bunting finished the day 3-for-4, tying his season-high for hits. He previously had three hits in a game five times this season, most recently in a May 7 win over Maryland.
· Tar Heel right fielder Seth Baldwin delivered a two-run home run to left field in the seventh inning, his fifth of the season and second of his career in tournament play (June 6, 2010, vs. Oral Roberts). Baldwin also drew a bases-loaded walk in the eighth inning and finished the day with three RBIs, his first three of the postseason. That mark ties Baldwin's single-game high in 2011 (April 1, vs. Clemson).
· The two earned runs the Tar Heels scored in the seventh off of Baldwin's home run ended a stretch in which Stanford ace Mark Appel had allowed only four earned runs in his last 30.1 innings pitched.
· Stanford's Tyler Gaffney extended his hit streak to 21 games with a two-out infield single in the eighth that started the Cardinal's two-run rally.
· Brian Ragira's two-run single in the eighth inning gave him 45 RBIs on the season, which leads the Cardinal.
