Miscues Lead to Baseball’s 4-3 Loss at UAB on Tuesday

Tuesday, April 18

Birmingham, Ala.

6 p.m.

Alabama

26-12

UAB

12-24

Alabama

UAB

Miscues Lead to Baseball’s 4-3 Loss at UAB on Tuesday

4/18/2023 9:38:00 PM | Baseball

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The Crimson Tide committed three errors that led to three unearned runs in the midweek

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Alabama baseball suffered a 4-3 loss to UAB on Tuesday evening at Regions Field. The Crimson Tide is now 26-12 on the season.

Alabama gained a 2-0 advantage in the top of the third on a two-run homer from Andrew Pinckney. The Tide maintained that lead until the fifth when an error helped the Blazers even things up with a pair of runs, one of which was unearned. UAB then pulled ahead in the seventh when a second miscue led to an eventual sacrifice fly. Alabama was able to tie things up in the top of the ninth on a Tommy Seidl solo homer to send the game to extras. The tie was broken in the 11^th when one more error allowed the winning run to cross for the Blazers.

Kade Woods posted a scoreless, hitless outing in his first career start. The redshirt freshman tossed 3.0 innings with a walk and a strikeout before turning it over to the bullpen. Hunter Furtado highlighted the relief effort, contributing 3.2 innings with four strikeouts and one unearned run. Zane Probst was last on the mound, suffering the hard-luck loss after allowing one unearned run in 0.2 an inning. UAB reliever Christian Clack (2-1) picked up the win with 1.0 scoreless frame.

From Head Coach Brad Bohannon

"Kade Woods gave us an awesome start, he looked great. Hunter Furtado was outstanding out of the bullpen. We just gave too many at-bats away early and certainly did not play very good defense tonight."

How It Happened

T3 | Andrew Pinckney got the Crimson Tide on the board with a two-run home run to left. He brought in Mac Guscette on the play, who reached on a hit-by-pitch. (2-0, Alabama)
B5 | A walk and an error put two to start the UAB rally before a double steal moved both runners into scoring position. A groundout to short then crossed one before a single and a fielder's choice added one more. (2-2)
B7 | An error allowed the leadoff man to reach and move all the way to third. A sacrifice fly in the next at-bat put the Blazers in front. (3-2, UAB)
T9 | Tommy Seidl sent a solo homer to straightaway center to tie things up. (3-3)
B11 | A leadoff single and a stolen base put a man in scoring position with one down. The Blazers then sent a grounder to first that was misplayed and went into no-man's land in right, allowing the winning run to score. (4-3, UAB)

Postgame Notes

Alabama has homered in 29 of 38 games this season and has produced multiple homers 19 times.
Andrew Pinckney reached base in today's game and has now done so in 19 straight contests.
Jim Jarvis' reached base streak ended at 19 games.

The Crimson Tide will next travel to Columbia to take on Missouri for a weekend series from April 21-23. First pitch in the series opener is set for 6 p.m. CT with a 5 p.m. start to follow on Saturday. Things wrap up on Sunday at 1 p.m. The bookend games of the series will air on SEC Network+ with game two being broadcast nationally on SEC Network.

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