Already leading 4-3, Stanford added a single run in the bottom of the 3rd, which Texas catcher Preston Clark answered with a homer in the top of the 4th.

Thanks to poor Texas defense, Stanford got some breathing room in the 5th. After two singles, Longhorn second baseman Brad Suttle misplayed a grounder off his chest that allowed a run to score. The next batter smashed one down to third. The ball hit about ten feet in front of 3B Nick Peoples, took a high hop, and caromed grotesquely off Peoples’ face. It was so ugly that Stanford coach Mark Marquess immediately sprinted out of the third-base dugout and was the first to reach Peoples, who was writhing on the turf. The sellout crowd remained virtually silent for several minutes as trainers attended to Peoples, who eventually walked off the field holding a towel to his face.

Texas ace Kyle McCulloch also walked off the field at that point, having allowed nine hits, two walks, and two HBP’s while recording only twelve outs.

Before the inning was over, two more runs scored on a grounder that went right through first basemen Chance Wheeless’ legs, and another run came home on an infield single to short that could have been scored an error.

Four runs in the inning for Stanford, and all four Texas infielders had grounders hit at them that they couldn’t turn into outs.

Edit: Peoples just returned to the Texas dugout between innings.