Headed to Huntsville – Baseball Scheduled for Matchup with Belmont at Toyota Field

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama baseball will travel to Huntsville on Tuesday evening to take on Belmont. The 15th-ranked Crimson Tide and Bruins are scheduled for a 6 p.m. CT first pitch at Toyota Field, home to the Double-A Rocket City Trash Pandas. Fans can listen to all the action live on the Crimson Tide Sports Network.

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Probable Starting Pitching Matchup

TUESDAY: UA – Kade Snell (R-Jr., LHP) vs. BU – Blake Ciuffentelli (Gr., LHP)

Leading Off

Alabama and Belmont will meet for just the third time in series history when the two teams square off on Tuesday evening at Toyota Field. The Crimson Tide holds the all-time advantage, 2-0, with both previous matchups occurring in Tuscaloosa.
The two teams last met on March 12, 2022, at The Joe. The Crimson Tide came away with a 3-1 win in that contest.

About Alabama

Alabama wrapped up the week at 1-3. The Crimson Tide took down Alabama State on Tuesday in Montgomery before falling in three close matchups at Georgia over the weekend.
The Crimson Tide used a huge night from TJ McCants to secure a 15-7 win over Alabama State last Tuesday evening at the Wheeler-Watkins Baseball Complex.
McCants recorded a 4-for-4 night that included a double, three home runs, six RBI, four runs scored and one walk as he reached in all five plate appearances before being pulled from the game. The senior hit a solo homer, a two-run shot and a three-run bomb for each of his roundtrippers. McCants was joined by Gage Miller at the top of the lineup, with the Tide leadoff man going 2-for-6 with two RBI and three runs scored.
The win last Tuesday went to Zane Adams, who allowed one run on two hits with three strikeouts in his scheduled 3.0 innings of work.
Alabama fell in both games of a doubleheader at Georgia last Saturday.
The two teams were tied at 5-5 from the fourth inning on before a grand slam in the ninth walked it off for the Bulldogs for the 9-5 final in game one.
Game two was tied at 3-3 after three innings before UA moved ahead with one run in the seventh. UGA then answered with a two-run bottom of the seventh and one in the eighth to make it a two-run ballgame. The extra run would prove crucial as the Tide was able to cross one in the ninth but could get no closer for the 6-5 final.
Georgia claimed game one of last Saturday's doubleheader, 9-5.
The Crimson Tide struck first with a run in the top of the first before a four-spot from Georgia in the home half gave the Bulldogs the lead. Alabama was able to add one more in the third and three in the fourth to take a one-run lead, but a solo shot for UGA in bottom of the fourth tied things up.
Both teams would go scoreless until the ninth when Kolby Branch hit a grand slam for the Bulldogs.
Alabama's late comeback came up short as the Tide fell, 6-5, in a back-and-forth game two of the doubleheader.
The Crimson Tide plated single tallies in the first, second and third – all on solo homers. The home runs in the first and third came off the bat of Miller with Justin Lebron hitting the solo shot in the second.
Georgia answered with a three-run third that featured two homers in the inning to knot things up at three apiece until the seventh. That seventh saw the Tide retake the lead with a solo homer from Kade Snell, but, once again, Georgia used the longball to answer, with a two-run shot off the bat of Charlie Condon giving UGA the advantage.
The Bulldogs added one more in the eighth, an insurance run that would prove crucial as the Tide was able to rally for one in the ninth. A one-out triple from William Hamiter followed by a Miller sacrifice fly made it a one-run affair, but a strikeout in the next at-bat brought game two to a close.
Alabama suffered a 10-5 loss to UGA last Sunday afternoon.
Things were even at 1-1 at the midway point of the second when Georgia began a stretch of eight unanswered runs headed to the seventh.
In that seventh, the Tide cut into the lead with a three-run homer from Snell, but UGA came right back with one run in the eighth. Alabama was able to cross one in the ninth but could get no closer than the 10-5 final.
The Crimson Tide totaled 11 hits and drew eight walks on Sunday but left a season-high 15 runners on base. UA reached at least one baserunner in every inning and put men in scoring position in eight of those nine frames.

About Belmont

Dave Jarvis is in his 27th season as a Division I head coach and 42nd year of coaching overall in 2024. The veteran manager entered the new season with a 737-678-2 career mark at the D-I level, all coming while at Belmont. A 1982 graduate of Arkansas State, Jarvis is joined on staff by associate head coach A.J. Gaura along with assistants Will Craig and Jason Stein.
Belmont finished the 2023 season at 27-33 overall, including a 10-17 mark in Missouri Valley Conference play. The '23 campaign came to an end in the MVC Championship Game as BU fell to Indiana State in the finals.
The Bruins were selected to finish sixth overall in the MVC in the league's preseason poll, as voted on by the conference's head coaches.

On Deck

Alabama will return home to a quick one-day turnaround as the Tide hosts 10^th-ranked South Carolina at Sewell-Thomas Stadium from Thursday through Saturday. The series opener is scheduled for a 7 p.m. first pitch on SEC Network. Friday's contest is slated for a 6 p.m. start followed by a 1 p.m. series finale on Saturday with both contests airing on SEC Network+.

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