Stanford, the second overall seed in the NCAA baseball tournament, received a severe test from Wright State on Friday night before Christian Robinson’s double in the 13th inning gave the Cardinal a 4-3 win in the regional at Sunken Diamond.
It was Stanford’s longest game since it beat Cal State Fullerton 3-2 in 13 innings in 2002.
In the afternoon game, Big West Conference Pitcher of the year Colton Eastman (10-3) and reliever Blake Workman allowed just five hits as Cal State Fullerton beat Baylor 6-2.
Andrew Daschbach was hit by a pitch to open the bottom of the 13th. Kyle Stowers flied to left, and Will Matthiessen struck out before Robinson delivered his shot down the right-field line. Daschbach scored standing up.
The Cardinal (45-10), top seeded in the regional, play Fullerton at 8 p.m. Saturday,
Stanford starter Tristan Beck gave up a home run to leadoff batter Matt Morrow on his second pitch. It was Morrow’s first homer of the season.
The Cardinal bounced back in the bottom of the first. Nico Hoerner drove in a run with a single, went to third when left fielder JD Orr misplayed his drive and scored on a wild pitch.
In the third, Stanford’s Tim Tawa doubled and Hoerner beat out an infield hit, putting runners at the corners with nobody out. But Stanford failed to score. Hoerner, trying to steal, was hung up when pitcher Ryan Weiss stepped off the rubber. Weiss threw to shortstop Chase Slone, who gunned Tawa down at the plate. Stowers was retired on a groundout to end the inning.
A sensational stop by Raiders third baseman Seth Gray on a hard smash by Brandon Wulff started an around-the-horn double play in the fourth.
Beck escaped a two-on, nobody-out jam in the fifth, getting the last out when No. 3 hitter Peyton Burdick was caught looking.
Tawa’s single to right scored Alec Wilson to open a 3-1 lead in the fifth. Wilson narrowly missed a home run with a leadoff double off the left-field wall. He took third on a throwing error by first baseman Gabe Snyder.
Stanford stranded two in the sixth, following a leadoff double by Daschbach and a walk. Mitch Gremling relieved Weiss and got Wulff and Christian Molfetta on popups to end the threat.
Beck went 6 1/3 innings, giving up five hits and striking out seven. He was lifted in the seventh for All-America closer Jack Little, who gave up a run-scoring single to Orr.
The Raiders scored the tying run after a passed ball by Molfetta and a wild pitch by Little in a span of three deliveries.
In the 10th, Wright State had two runners on against Little before left-hander Jacob Palisch came on to fan pinch-hitter Alex Alders to end the inning.
•UCLA scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat Gonzaga 6-5 in the Minneapolis Regional.
•Levi Jordan and AJ Graffanino had three hits apiece as Washington beat UConn 7-1 in Conway, S.C.
•Nick Madrigal had four RBIs to lead host Oregon State past Northwestern State 9-3.
Tom FitzGerald is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: [email protected]