re: Alabama Baseball Thread -RIP 2014/Stacked for 2015?

Yea we'll be stacked. Smith and Hawley will be gone. Moore, Wass, and Turnbull will have draft decisions to make, and I suppose maybe Keller and Kamplain too but I'd be shocked if they left. I bet Moore will be back, the other two I'm not so sure about. Aside from that pretty much everybody should be back. Just sucks that all of our home games will be in Hoover, we'll lose all the excitement that we've built with the students this year.

That's mighty optimistic, but I suppose not impossible. The offense would really have to get it going. That would certainly end in a regular season championship and a national seed.

I imagine given the strengths of both teams it'll be a pretty low scoring series. I'm going to try to make it over there for it.

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Free live stream of tonight's game from Tennessee. So far the sound isn't working, but at least there's video.

ETA: Audio is up and working if you can tolerate Tennessee radio guys.

Turnbull worked a 1-2-3 first inning. Hughston had a one out hit for us in the 2nd, followed up by back to back strikeouts. 0-0 B2. All the strikeouts are racking up his pitch count, UT's starter at 44 after two innings.

ETA: Another quick 1-2-3 inning for Turnbull. On to the 3rd. Top of the order up for Alabama.

White doubles, Salem bunts for a hit and the third baseman throws it away allowing White to score. 1-0 with Salem on first and no out. Moore and Wass single to load up the bases, still no outs. Overstreet grounds to third and they get Salem at home. Bases still loaded, one out for Smith.

Smith pops out for the second out. Tennessee's pitcher supplies our clutch offense for us since we can't when he balks with two outs scoring a run for us, and putting runners at 2nd and 3rd with two outs.

And finally a clutch hit. Hughston bloops one into left with two outs, scoring two. 4-0 Alabama, going to the bottom of the 3rd after a popout.

It's so unexpected, so when it happens it's even more exciting

UT gets a leadoff walk and a two out hit, but fails to score. 4-0 T4.

Haynie walks to lead off the 4th. White drops down a great bunt and UT's catcher makes a nice play to get him. Haynie at 2nd with one out. Another clutch two-out hit, this one by Moore, scores Haynie 5-0. Two two-out RBI hits in as many innings, hopefully a sign of better things to come in those situations.

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hopefully a sign of better things to come in those situations.

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Yes, please.

Alabama with three more in the 5th. Overstreet walked and Smith singled to lead off the inning. After a strikeout and a wild pitch, a sac fly by Vincent scored Overstreet and another wild pitch scored Smith with two outs. Haynie then homers with the bases empty. 8-0 Alabama, pitching change for UT.