re: Tide Baseball 31-27 (12-17)

Alabama wins 9-4

9-4 final & the sweep. RTR!

Had you told me 3-0 to begin the season I wouldn’t have believed it. Roll Tide.

Crimson Tide Completes Weekend Sweep of Xavier with 9-4 Win on Sunday

Alabama applied consistent pressure on offense, scoring in five of the eight innings to secure the win

Alabama baseball completed the series sweep of Xavier with a 9-4 win on Sunday afternoon at Sewell-Thomas Stadium. The season-opening series sweep was the Tide's fourth in five seasons under head coach Brad Bohannon.

The Crimson Tide grabbed the lead early on Sunday afternoon and never looked back. Alabama scored one run in the second before putting up a four-spot in the bottom of the third to put the game out of reach. The Tide then added one in the fifth, two in the seventh and one in the eighth, scoring in five of the eight frames on Sunday on the way to the win.

All nine starters reached base safely in the game with eight of the nine recording at least one hit. Seven of the Tide's nine starters contributed at least one run while six posted an RBI by day's end. Leading the offensive charge was Tommy Seidl. The Harvard transfer finished 3-for-4 with a double, two RBI, two runs and a walk. Jim Jarvis matched Seidl for the team-high in runs with two, part of his 2-for-4 showing that included an RBI. William Hamiter also contributed a multi-hit effort, going 2-for-5 with a pair of doubles and adding one run.

Grayson Hitt (1-0) earned the win for Alabama in his first career weekend start. The sophomore tossed a career-high tying 4.0 scoreless innings while striking out a career-best six batters.

From Head Coach Brad Bohannon
"I'm really glad to get a series sweep over a very good Xavier team. We played progressively better over the course of the weekend, but to be able to win three games and make as many mistakes as we did, ones that we can learn from, is really a positive. Offensively today we had a lot of production up and down the lineup. There was a point in which we put together 10 consecutive quality at-bats and we scored in five of the eight innings. After we put the four-spot up in the third, we maintained our focus, didn't let our foot off the gas and ended up scoring in three of the next five innings after that. I thought that was a real positive sign of our maturity and mentality."

Tamez hit the crap out of the ball this weekend.

Xavier game 3 - post game videos

Game 3 Highlights


Tommy Seidl SEC Network Interview


Press Conference: Coach Bo, Tommy Seidl and Grayson Hitt (edit: UA lists Dominic Tamez in the press conference but it’s actually Tommy Seidl)

No buzz that I heard in the stadium. Not sure if something was up or if Coach Bo decided to go with a ‘veteran’ lineup in the outfield for opening weekend (Hamiter, Seidl, Rose, Pinckney and Diodati). I thought he might have least been the DH at some point, but they went with Hodo when it wasn’t Diodati. I’m sure now that we’re asking about it, Coach Bo will be asked sometime soon.

Not sure the source for these, but Rick Pendley posted these stats today:

ALABAMA BASEBALL IN SEC

Team
Batting: .327 (5th)
ERA: 4.00 (9th)
Fielding: .981 (T8th)

Individual
(Hitting)
Batting Avg
William Hamiter .500 (T8th)
Caden Rose .500 (T8th)

On Base Pct
William Hamiter .571 (T13th)

Hits
William Hamiter 6 (T5th)

Doubles
William Hamiter 3 (T1st)
Zane Denton 2 (T7th)

Home Runs
Dominic Tamez 2 (T1st)

Total Bases
Dominic Tamez 10 (T9th)

Hit By Pitch
Bryce Eblin 2 (T2nd)

Sac Flies
Dominic Tamez 2 (T1st)

Pitching
ERA (min 3.0 IP)
Grayson Hitt 0.00 (T1st)

Opp Batting Avg
Hunter Furtado .100 (T11th)

Inn Pitched
Garrett McMillan 6.0 (T4th)

Strike Outs
Grayson Hitt 6 (T14th)

Wins
Brock Guffey 1 (T1st)
Hunter Furtado 1 (T1st)
Grayson Hitt 1 (T1st)

Saves
Brock Guffey 1 (T1st)

Good stuff, thanks for the post. S/O to Hamiter who had a great series, and his double yesterday came after an 11 pitch battle