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Title: Alabama baseball jumps on Samford early, wins 15-7 Post by: pmull on March 20, 2013, 09:11:58 AM Quote It was Alabama's third double-figure scoring output in its last four games. Alabama led 13-1 after three innings. This is a Crimson Tide team that struggled offensively earlier this season, but seems to be hitting its stride. Austen Smith went 3-for-5, falling a triple short of the cycle. Kyle Overstreet went 3-for-3 and Ben Moore and Mikey White had two hits each. Brett Booth drove in four runs. "They helped us a little bit early, but I thought we had really good offensive pressure in the front part of the game and obviously we were able to extend out the game," Alabama head coach Mitch Gaspard said. "I think our guys are at a better place offensively than we were in the front part of the season." Gaspard mentioned how the Tide (12-9) played four freshmen early in the season - Overstreet at second, White at shortstop, Georgie Salem in center and Ryan Blanchard, who came off the bench Tuesday, in left. He also said that some veterans, including Smith, Booth and Moore, were putting together better at-bats. http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/03/alabama_baseball_jumps_on_samf.html Title: Re: Alabama baseball jumps on Samford early, wins 15-7 Post by: pmull on March 20, 2013, 09:17:55 AM This was a good mid-week win for the Tide. SEC wins will be hard to get so we need to pick these mid-game wins to improve our overall record. We are 12-9 overall and 2-1 SEC.
Bama's bats are coming around. We scored 15 runs on 14 hits. We had 6 extra base hits (5 doubles & 1 HR). In the last week we have inproved our batting avg from .220 to .253. We play Jacksonville State at home tonight before traveling to Athens this weekend for a three game series with Georgia. |