Alabama Baseball Notebook: April 12, 2004
4/12/2004 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
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Overall Record: 21-13 (.618)
SEC Record: 4-8 (.333) (6th SEC West)
Last Week: 2-2 (.500)
April 6 Alabama 10, Louisiana Tech 1
April 9 Vanderbilt 6, Alabama 5
April 10 Alabama 3, Vanderbilt 1
April 11 Vanderbilt 3, Alabama 2
This Week:
April 14 Alabama at UAB 7:06 PM (CSS)
(Hoover Met)
April 16 Auburn at Alabama 6:30 PM (WEB TV)
April 17 Auburn at Alabama 4 PM (WEB TV)
April 18 Auburn at Alabama 2:06 PM (CSS)
ALABAMA HITTING NOTES:
*The Crimson Tide is batting .277 (313-for-1,132) this season with 22 home runs and 196 RBI in 34 games.
*Alabama is 9-0 when recording 10+ run and 12-2 when recording 10+ hits in a game.
*Alabama has recorded 11 hits in back-to-back Sunday SEC games against Arkansas and Vanderbilt and lost both games.
*In SEC play, the Crimson Tide is hitting .238 (95-for-400) with six home runs and 39 RBI.
*Last week, Alabama batted .303 (40-for-132) in four games with one home run and 19 RBI en route to a 2-2 record.
ALABAMA PITCHING NOTES:
*Alabama remains one of the top staffs in the league, compiling a 21-13 record and 2.80 ERA in 34 games this season. Bama has also added four complete games, four shutouts and eight saves this year.
*In SEC play, the staff is 4-8 with a 4.33 ERA (104 IP, 120 H, 64 R, 50 ER, 37 BB, 100 K), including two complete games.
*The Crimson Tide has turned in 20 quality starts this season (6 IP, 3 ER or less).
*In addition, Alabama has allowed three earned runs or less 24 times in 34 games this year.
*Alabama has had seven games in which it has allowed no earned runs, including four shutouts.
*Bama starters are 15-8 with a 2.96 ERA (194.1 IP, 173 H, 79 R, 64 ER, 48 BB, 146 K).
*The bullpen is 6-5 with eight saves and a 2.49 ERA (104.2 IP, 89 H, 37 R, 29 ER, 37 BB, 104 K) this season.
ALABAMA FIELDING NOTES
*As a team, Alabama is fielding .970 through 34 games, which ranks among the leaders in the SEC. Alabama has made 37 errors in 34 games.
*The Crimson Tide has played errorless baseball 10 times this season *Alabama has made at least one error (18 total) in 12 of its last 13 games.
*In SEC play, Bama is also fielding .970, with 13 errors in 12 games this year.
ALABAMA NOTEBOOK
*After starting the season with a 14-4 overall record, Alabama (21-13, 4-8 SEC) has gone 7-9 in its last 16 games since March 17th.
*The Crimson Tide came with inches of sweeping No. 25 Vanderbilt this past weekend in Tuscaloosa. On Friday night, Alabama nearly climbed out of a 6-0 hole by scoring five runs over the final two innings only to lose 6-5. Bama left the tying runs on base in the eighth and ninth innings. Freshman Brandon Belcher's double off the top of the wall in the ninth inning missed by inches of being a game-tying two-run home run. On Sunday, Alabama left the bases loaded in the eighth and ninth innings in falling 3-2. The game ended when pinch-hitter Matt Downs was robbed of a game-winning, two-run double when Vandy RF Worth Scott made a spectacular over the shoulder catch and then slammed into the wall but managed to hang on to the baseball after he crashed to the ground on his back. The Crimson Tide left 14 runners on base in Sunday's loss.
*Alabama has been shutout through eight innings in four of its six SEC home games this season.
*Alabama has tied the single-season school record with 16 passed balls this season. The Crimson Tide also had 16 passed balls in 1981. Senior catcher Nick Richardson leads the SEC with 11 passed balls this season.
*Alabama has hit only 22 home runs this season and 15 of those have been solo shots.
*Alabama batted only .294 (29-for-102) against Vanderbilt this weekend and lost two, one-run games to the Commodores. Both teams scored 10 runs in the three-game series.
*The Alabama pitching staff held Vanderbilt to 10 runs (6 ER) over the weekend, but lost two of the three games played. The staff went 1-2 with a 2.00 ERA (27 IP, 23 H, 10 R, 6 ER, 9 BB, 21 K) in the series.
*Alabama scored eight of its 10 runs in the Vanderbilt series in the eighth and ninth innings.
*Junior shortstop Rocky Scelfo is riding a team-high eight-game hitting streak for Alabama. During the streak, he is batting .375 (12-for-32) with four runs scored and four RBI. He also has a seven-game SEC hitting streak (11-for-31, .355) and leads the Tide in SEC play with a .294 (15-for-51) batting average in 12 games. For the season, Scelfo is batting .317 (39-for-123) in 33 games with one home run and 22 RBI. He is second on the club with 11 multi hit games.
*Junior second baseman Allen Rice has recorded four consecutive two-hit games for Alabama. During those four games, he is batting .444 (8-for-18) with three runs, one double and four RBI. For the season, Rice remains UA's leading hitter with a .348 (39-for-112) average with one home run and 23 RBI in 31 games. He leads UA with 12 multi hit games this season.
*Sophomore third baseman Evan Bush has hit safely in eight of his last 10 games, batting .351 (13-for-37) with eight RBI. He had a six-game RBI streak from March 28-April 6. Bush had a career-high three hits in the Tide's 3-2 loss to Vandy on April 11. For the season, the Rainbow City native is batting .306 (33-for-108) with a team-high six home runs and 22 RBI.
*Junior first baseman Zac Welch is riding a four-game hitting streak where he is batting .250 (4-for-16) with four RBI. He has also hit safely in seven of his last eight games for Alabama. In 32 games this season, Welch is batting .291 (32-for-110) with four home runs and 24 RBI.
