Home-and-Home Series Wraps Up as Baseball Welcomes UAB on Tuesday

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama baseball continues its homestand on Tuesday evening when the 12^th-ranked Crimson Tide welcomes UAB to town. First pitch between the two in-state foes is set for 6 p.m. CT with the game airing on SEC Network+.

Tuesday's matchup with the Blazers will continue the Tide's '$2 Tuesday' at The Joe. The deal is one of Alabama's season-long promotions, featuring $2 reserved tickets for all fans in attendance.

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Probable Starting Pitching Matchup

TUESDAY: UA – Kade Snell (R-Jr., LHP) vs. UAB – Brooks House (Fr., RHP)

Leading Off

Alabama and UAB will meet for the second time this season and 86th time in series history when two programs square off on Tuesday evening at Sewell-Thomas Stadium. The Crimson Tide holds the all-time advantage, 57-28, including a 31-10 mark at home.
The in-state foes met earlier this season on Feb. 27 at Regions Field in Birmingham. The Crimson Tide came out on top in that matchup, 9-7, in a 10-inning affair.
UAB's last trip to The Joe came on March 21 of last season. That contest finished at 12-2 in favor of Alabama with the game ending in a run-rule victory after eight innings.

About Alabama

Alabama finished the week at 2-2. The Crimson Tide first fell to South Alabama on Tuesday before earning a series win over the top-ranked Arkansas Razorbacks across the weekend.
The series win over Arkansas was the Tide's first against the nation's top-ranked team since 2009. The series victory was highlighted by Sunday's 5-0 shutout win. The shutout was the first for Alabama in program history against No. 1 and first against the Hogs since 2019.
Alabama suffered a 5-4 loss to South Alabama last Tuesday evening at Sewell-Thomas Stadium.
The Tide collected four runs with two outs in the third to build an early advantage. The Jaguars answered with single tallies in the fourth and fifth to cut the deficit in half and make it a 4-2 affair after five.
In the eighth, South Alabama rallied with two outs, using a two-run double and an RBI-single to take a 5-4 lead. UA had runners in scoring position in the eighth and reached a man in the ninth but could not rally back.
Alabama suffered a 5-3 loss to top-ranked Arkansas on Friday evening in Tuscaloosa.
The Razorbacks belted back-to-back homers in the first to take an early 3-0 lead. Arkansas then followed with a pair of runs in the third to make it 5-0, where the score would stay until the home half of the eighth.
In that eighth, Alabama scratched across three runs. Bryce Eblin and Gage Miller started the rally with back-to-back singles followed by consecutive RBI-singles from Ian Petrutz and Justin Lebron. After a walk to load the bases, the Tide added another tally on a TJ McCants sacrifice fly and had the tying runs on base with one down, but a strikeout and a groundout ended the inning at 5-3, the eventual final.
Alabama downed top-ranked Arkansas, 4-3, in extra innings on Saturday evening.
Home runs were the only offense to start, as Alabama took a two-run lead on a Will Hodo solo shot in the second followed by a Miller solo bomb in the third. Arkansas answered with solo homers in the fifth and sixth to make it 2-2.
The Tide regained the lead in the eighth, using a two-out RBI-double from McCants to score one. The lead would not last long, as another solo homer in the Razorback ninth sent the game to extras. Arkansas was held scoreless in the top of the 10th to bring the Crimson Tide to the plate.
Alabama led off the home half with a double from Kade Snell. The redshirt junior was replaced by pinch-runner Mason Swinney, who would come home in the next at-bat on a slow dribbler back to the mound from McCants. The Hogs' pitcher first bobbled the ball before throwing it past the first baseman to allow Swinney to score the game-winning run.
Alton Davis II picked up the win, allowing one run on one hit to go with three strikeouts across the final 2.0 innings. Tyler Fay joined Davis II out of the pen, with Fay tossing 3.0 relief frames and striking out three while allowing one run on one hit. The relief duo backed up starter Greg Farone, who allowed one run on four hits and a walk with three strikeouts in 5.0 innings of work.
The Crimson Tide leaned on starter Zane Adams on Sunday afternoon, securing a 5-0 shutout victory to clinch the series with Arkansas.
Adams earned the win with a gem, working 8.0 scoreless frames with only four hits and a walk to go with five strikeouts. He was followed by Davis II, who posted a scoreless ninth with a walk and a strikeout for the shutout win.
The Crimson Tide offense provided Adams with all the support he would need, scoring one in the third, two in the seventh and adding a pair for insurance in the eighth. Alabama's bats registered 10 hits against the Razorbacks with four players contributing two-hit games. Eblin led the way, finishing 2-for-4 with a home run, two RBI and one run.

About UAB

Casey Dunn is in his 20th season overall and third at UAB in 2024. The former Samford head coach opened the new year with a career 578-483 mark, including a 48-61 record across his first two seasons with the Blazers. A 1999 graduate of Auburn, Dunn is joined on staff by associate head coach B.J. Green along with assistants Brandon Moore and Brad Moss.
UAB finished the 2023 season with a 17-36 overall record, including an 8-22 mark in Conference USA action.
The Blazers were selected to finish last in the American Athletic Conference in the league's preseason poll, as voted on by the conference's head coaches.

On Deck

Another top-ranked challenger awaits the Crimson Tide as No. 1 Texas A&M comes to town from Thursday through Saturday. The first two games of the series are scheduled for a 6 p.m. start followed by a 2 p.m. first pitch in the finale. Thursday's contest will be broadcast nationally on SEC Network with the final two games airing on SEC Network+.

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