STANFORD, Calif. – There will be more baseball at Sunken Diamond this season. No. 9 Stanford was selected on Sunday as one of 16 Regional hosts for the NCAA Championships, June 1-5.
The entire postseason field, including national seeds, will be revealed on Monday at 9 a.m. PT on ESPN2.
Tickets are available
here. The Regional All-Session package, which includes tickets to all seven possible games, is on sale for $60 and $45 for youth/seniors -- a significant savings over single-game tickets. General admission tickets will only be sold after all reserved seats have been sold. Single-game tickets will be available beginning on Thursday.
Stanford (40-14, 21-9 Pac-12) will enter the postseason with wins in 21 of its last 23 games, including four Pac-12 sweeps and six consecutive series wins. Stanford's 40 regular season wins are the most since 2004, and the most overall wins since the 2012 team racked up 41. This is the 21st 40-win season in the 41-year tenure of head coach
Mark Marquess, who is retiring at season's end.
The Cardinal finished as the runner-up in the Pac-12 to No. 1 Oregon State. Stanford won 21 conference games for the first time since winning the Pac-8 Southern Division with a 22-8 mark in 1998.
Stanford last played in the postseason in 2014. Then-freshman
Tommy Edman hit a walk off home run to win the Bloomington Regional over host Indiana. The Cardinal eventually fell at Vanderbilt in Game 3 of the Super Regional.
Stanford, which last hosted a Regional in 2012 and last reached the College World Series in 2008, has won three straight Regionals (2011, 2012, 2014).
This will be the 16th time Sunken Diamond has served as host to a Regional (Stanford has advanced 12 of the previous 15 times).
Postseason Notables
• Stanford holds an all-time record of 139-72 (.659) in 32 postseason appearances.
• Stanford has won 16 of its 29 Regionals with a record of 86-33 (.723) in Regional play.
• The Cardinal has reached the College World Series 16 times.
• This is the 30th postseason appearance under Coach Marquess, which includes 16 NCAA Regional crowns, six NCAA Super Regional titles, 14 trips to Omaha and two national titles.
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