Colton Hock closed out a win for the 14th time this season -- a new school record -- and Duke Kinamon hit his second home run to lead Stanford to a 4-0 win over the University of San Francisco.

Stanford (31-13) is finding ways to win a variety of ways, which you would expect from a team in the midst of winning 12 of 13 games. Two days after losing a chance to sweep Arizona State, the Cardinal remained perfect in Tuesday games with a shutout of a capable Dons squad.

"When we haven't really hit, we've pitched well," said head coach Mark Marquess about the Cardinal's winning ways. "In a hitters ballpark (at ASU) we got out to a lead in both games and got a big lead in the second game. Then they got the big lead in the last game. In Oregon we hit the ball well and I didn't think we swung the bats well against Arizona, but we pitched superbly against them. We've played really good defense for the most part. We've won a lot of close games and Colton Hock has saved them."

The Cardinal got six innings from freshman Erik Miller and he pitched around a few stretches of control issues to allow only two hits and two walks. Tyler Thorne went 1 2/3 innings before Hock came in with the bases loaded to finish a four-out save.

It's those type of sink-or-swim situations that Hock said he didn't always "come out alive" when he was a freshman or sophomore. But Marquess and pitching coach Rusty Filter routinely put him in difficult positions and watched him mature into a confident closer.

"He lost some tough games as a freshman and sophomore," Marquess said. "Those experiences really helped him. And he probably could be a really good starter. He affects so many more games as a closer for us. That's even better than a starter."

Hock is 5-1 in addition to his 14 saves and has a .194 opponents batting average in 38 1/3 innings.

He wasn't thinking of making history before or during the game.

"We realize as a team that this is the most important game of the year at this point," he said. "Tuesday games are critical and are must-win situations. The fact that this team can go out there with a stressful work environment with school winding down and guys graduating ... and put together a good nine innings -- Erik did a great job and Tyler did a great job. That just means so much, and that's all I can think about right now."

It was a fast game through five innings with neither team accomplishing much in the batter's box. Stanford broke through in the six when Jack Klein hit a two-out single to score Daniel Bakst, who hit a double with one out.

Then Kinamon provided the power display in the seventh.

Kinamon has been hitting better than .300 in conference play and his power is starting to emerge. He hit his first home run of the season Saturday -- a two-run shot -- in Tempe and sent a no-doubter through the night sky at Sunken Diamond.

"I had a lot of changes in my swing," he said. "I try not think about it too much or put too much pressure on myself. Just have fun."

It's easy for the Stanford players to enjoy baseball right now. The Cardinal start a three game series Saturday at Cal with a chance build on their argument to host a regional, and maybe more.