Stanford edges Wright State 4-3 in NCAA regional on Robinson’s double in 13th

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Stanford, the second overall seed in the NCAA baseball tournament, survived a test by Wright State on Friday night when 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 a regional game in 2002.

“That was a heck of a playoff game,” Stanford head coach David Esquer said. “That’s playoff baseball at its best. … That’s a tough offense to hold down as long as we did.”

In the afternoon game, Big West Conference Pitcher of the Year Colton Eastman (10-3) and reliever Blake Workman allowed five hits as No. 3 Cal State Fullerton beat No. 2 Baylor 6-2.

Stanford’s 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, a late-inning defensive replacement in center field, delivered his shot down the right-field line off reliever Jeremy Randolph. Daschbach scored standing up.

“He threw a good fastball on the outer half with the first pitch,” Robinson said. “I was just trying to get a base knock and move (Daschbach) over. It just happened to work out well.”

The Cardinal (45-10), top-seeded in the regional, played Fullerton on Saturday night.

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The Stanford-Wright State game lasted 4 hours, 14 minutes.

“It felt like eight (hours),” Esquer said. In a playoff game “you’re out there concentrating on every pitch. Time kind of expands when you concentrate on that level over and over again. It seems you’re out there much longer than you really are.”

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 61/3 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 then scored the tying run after a passed ball by catcher Molfetta and a wild pitch by Little in a span of three deliveries.

Little went 31/3 innings, matching his longest stint of the season.

“He labored a little bit, for him,” Esquer said, “but he gave us a chance to win.”

In the 10th, Wright State had two runners on against Little before freshman left-hander Jacob Palisch came on to fan pinch-hitter Alex Alders to end the inning. Palisch and Brendan Beck (7-0) blanked Wright State over the last 31/3 innings.

“It was a great job by the bullpen,” Tristan Beck said. “It was a great job out of my teammates, sticking with me.”

Against Baylor, Fullerton’s Brett Borgogno hit a two-run double in the second, Sahid Valenzuela’s single drove in another in the sixth, and the Titans (33-23) tacked on three unearned runs in the ninth.

In last year’s Stanford regional title game, Eastman pitched the Titans over the Cardinal 4-2 in the final game of Mark Marquess’ 41-year career as Stanford’s head coach.

It was Eastman’s only win of the season. He had missed most of it with an elbow injury.

•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.

•Oregon State, the No. 1 seed in its regional, got three hits and four RBIs from Nick Madrigal and beat Northwestern State 9-3.

Tom FitzGerald is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: tfitzgerald@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @tomgfitzgerald