STANFORD, Calif. — The ship has been righted.
 
The Santa Clara University baseball team used 10 pitchers Wednesday, navigating through a couple of tough spots, and got a clutch two-out, two-run base hit in the seventh to sail to a 2-1 non-conference victory over Stanford at Sunken Diamond, snapping a seven-game losing streak and a similar 11-game streak on the road.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Santa Clara pitching staff, which just last week gave up 37 runs on 50 hits across four games, held Stanford (16-17) at bay all night. 10 Broncos combined to force the Cardinal to go 0 for 12 with runners on base, 0 for 6 with runners in scoring position and 0 for 3 with the bases loaded, stranding 12 runners on the night. The Broncos combined for 12 strikeouts, the staff's 16th game this season with double-digit Ks.
   
• Sebastian Schreiber (1-1) earned his first career win after only throwing nine pitches in the sixth. He struck out the first batter he faced on three pitches, then got a groundout in three more pitches. He allowed a two-out single to Nolan Stoll, but retired Brock Sell on a flyout with the very first pitch to end the inning.
   
• Santa Clara (14-21) was no-hit for 6 2/3 innings Wednesday. Stanford pitchers were throwing a perfect game for 4 2/3 innings until Luke Devine reached on an error in the fifth. The Broncos' comeback rally started in the seventh with their first walk of the game, a five-pitch free pass to Max Ross. Johnny Luetzow was hit by the very next pitch and a groundout up the middle put two runners in scoring position with two outs. That's when Devine changed the game again, this time singling to left field to score Ross and Luetzow and put Santa Clara ahead, 2-1.
   
• Four Broncos pitchers closed out the game with three shutout innings. Vincent Braga threw a scoreless seventh with two strikeouts and only 10 pitches. Trevor Banning tallied two outs, including a strikeout, in the eighth but walked two. Josh Johnson entered and also issued a walk to load the bases, but was able to strike out Sell swinging to end the threat. RJ Meyn struck out the first two batters he faced in the ninth but gave up a two-out, seeing-eye single to Charlie Bates. He'd get JJ Moran to fly out to right field to end the game and log his fourth save of the year, tying him for the team lead with Hunter Hargett.
   
• The Broncos only had two hits – Devine's go-ahead single in the seventh and a leadoff single by Ross in the ninth – and only two free passes (one walk, one hit-by-pitch), but still managed to outscore Stanford. The Cardinal had four hits, including a multi-hit performance from Bates (2 for 4), and drew nine walks, but only mustered one run on an RBI groundout in the second inning. Brock Ketelsen (0-1) took the loss for Stanford after allowing two runs on a walk, hit-by-pitch and Devine's single in 1 2/3 innings.

NOTABLE NUMBERS

• 1: The one run allowed by Broncos pitchers was the fewest runs given up to Stanford since Feb. 28, 2021, when they blanked the Cardinal, 13-0.
• 14: Luetzow extended his reached base safely streak to 14 games with a hit-by-pitch in the seventh. He went 0 for 2 to end his seven-game hitting streak.
• 61: Wednesday's win at Stanford was the Broncos' first road win in 61 days, since opening the year with a 13-2 run-rule-shortened victory at Stanford's arch rival California in Berkeley, Calif., on Feb. 13.

COMING UP

• Santa Clara's Northern California road trip continues with a three-game West Coast Conference series at Pacific starting Friday. Fans can find all live coverage links at SantaClaraBroncos.com.