Alabama baseball couldn’t have scripted a better response to a four-game skid, sweeping No. 18-ranked Florida behind a historic no-hitter, dominant pitching and an offensive surge that never let up.
Game 1: Alabama 6, Florida 0
When the Crimson Tide needed a win most, coming into the series on a four-game losing streak, it turned to its ace Tyler Fay, who threw the ninth no-hitter in Alabama baseball history.
“What a night, just a special night for Tyler … just incredible,” head coach Rob Vaughn said. “And it came on the heels of the time, we’re just calling what it is we really needed it.”
Fay was dominant from start to finish with a career high of 13 strikeouts, while walking two with a career high of 132 pitches. Fay’s velocity was noticeably up early on, hitting 97 mph multiple times and sitting around 95 mph through the first six innings.
“That was probably the best my fastball command has ever been, just kind of up and down, in and out,” Fay said.
The Crimson Tide struck first in the bottom half of the second as catcher John Lemm led things off with a single up the middle, followed by a double off the base of the wall in left from designated hitter Will Plattner. Left fielder Justin Osterhouse then delivered an RBI single, giving the Crimson Tide a 1-0 advantage.
The next batter, first baseman Luke Vaughn, laid down an RBI safety squeeze, extending the Crimson Tide’s lead to 2-0.
In the fourth inning, the Crimson Tide tacked on four more runs thanks to an RBI groundout from Vaughn. Followed by an RBI single through the drawn-in infield from second baseman Brennan Holt, making it a 4-0 ballgame.
Center fielder Bryce Fowler laced an RBI double in the left-center gap, then displayed some aggressive base running, hustling home from second base on an RBI bunt single from right fielder Brady Neal, just getting under to tag to make it 6-0.
Game 2: Alabama 8, Florida 4
The Crimson Tide took down the Gators 8-4 in the second game to win its first SEC series of the season.
Alabama got the scoring started right away in the bottom half of the first against Aidan King, who hadn’t surrendered an earned run all year.
Shortstop Justin Lebron worked a walk, and Neal followed with a single to left center, allowing Lebron to go first to third. Third baseman Jason Torres then laid down an RBI safety squeeze to give the Crimson Tide a 1-0 lead.
The Gators responded in the top of the second, as Karson Bowen crushed a solo home run to left to even the ballgame at 1-1. The Gators took a 2-1 lead in the third inning via an RBI base knock from Blake Cyr.
The Crimson Tide retook the lead in the bottom half of the inning thanks to an RBI single from Neal. The next batter, Torres, laid down his second RBI safety squeeze in as many at-bats, making it 3-2.
Neal delivered a two-out RBI base knock to extend the Crimson Tide’s lead to 4-2 in the bottom of the fifth.
Left-hander Zane Adams delivered a quality start for the Crimson Tide, tossing six innings, and allowing two runs on five hits, with one walk and six strikeouts on 102 pitches. Matthew Heiberger replaced Adams to start the seventh inning and retired the Gators in order.
In the bottom half of the seventh, Lebron crushed his 10th home run of the season on a hanging breaking ball, a two-run shot to extend the Crimson Tide’s lead to 6-2.
Heiberger remained in for the eighth inning and walked the leadoff batter, then plunked the following hitter, but induced a lineout and recorded a pair of punchouts to work into and out of trouble.
The Crimson Tide tacked on two key insurance runs in the bottom half of the inning, thanks to an RBI double from Brennan Holt. Then a couple of batters later, an RBI groundout from Neal made it 8-2.
Heiberger came back out for the ninth and recorded an out and looked like he induced a 5-4-3 double play to end the game, but Torres booted it at third before Heiberger walked a batter to load the bases.
Heiberger handed the ball over to Hagan Banks, who gave up a sacrifice fly to Kyle Jones, followed by an RBI double from Cyr to cut the Crimson Tide’s lead to 8-4, and Banks picked up the final out.
Game 3: Alabama 14, Florida 7
The Crimson Tide completed the sweep over the Gators behind an offensive explosion, winning 14-7.
Freshman Myles Upchurch got the start for the Crimson Tide on the mound and had no command over any of his pitches, walking four batters, recording only one out, and surrendering three runs. An E3 from Luke Vaughn allowed the first run to score. A few batters later, Cole Stanford walked with the bases loaded to make it 2-0.
Sam Mitchell replaced Upchurch on the mound with the bases loaded and one out and plunked Ashton Wilson to bring across another run, making it 3-0 before the Crimson Tide even came to the plate.
Mitchell worked a scoreless second and third inning before handing the ball over to freshman Luke Smyers for the top of the fourth inning. Smyers threw eight straight balls to start his day to put two runners on base with nobody out.
Ashton Crowther took over for Smyers with runners at the corners and nobody out and surrendered a sacrifice fly to Bowen to extend the Gators’ lead to 4-0. Crowther came back out for the fifth and retired the Gators in order.
Lebron got the Crimson Tide on the board in the bottom half of the fifth with a two-run blast, his second in as many days and his 11th home run of the season. Crowther came back out for the third inning of work in the sixth inning and worked yet another scoreless frame, lowering his ERA to 0.87.
In the bottom half of the inning, the captain, designated hitter Will Plattner, crushed a two-run homer, his first of the season, to even things up at 4-4. The Crimson Tide then loaded the bases, and Vaughn came in to score on a wild pitch.
Tensions then started to brew as Lebron was hit by a pitch, resulting in warnings for both benches. The bad blood between the two sides began after Lebron’s home run on Saturday, after which Gators catcher Bowen took exception to Lebron’s bat drop.
“If he hits him in the head with 99, we might have a problem, but it was a backup slider he hit him with,” Rob Vaughn said. “I didn’t want a warning there. I understand why they did, but no, I don’t think there was any intent behind it.”
The very next pitch, Neal stood up for Lebron in the best way possible, crushing a grand slam to left field to extend the Crimson Tide’s lead to 9-4.
As Lebron rounded the bases, Gators third baseman Sam Miller jawed at him, leading to Miller being ejected from the ballgame.
Crowther came back out for a fourth inning of work and served up a two-run home run to Cyr, cutting the Crimson Tide’s lead to 9-6. Bobby Alcock came in relief for Crowther and allowed an RBI single to Cash Strayer, making it 9-7.
The Crimson Tide tacked on five more runs in the bottom of the seventh, thanks to a bases-loaded walk from Holt. The next batter, Fowler, just missed a grand slam, crushing an RBI single off the top of the wall in left, making it 11-7. A couple of batters later, Neal delivered a bases-clearing double, to make it a seven RBI day for him and extend the lead to 14-7.
The Crimson Tide turned to Banks for the eighth and ninth innings, and he picked up the final six outs to give the Crimson Tide its first sweep over the Gators since 2002.
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