Alabama
29-7, 8-6
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Mississippi State
21-14, 4-10
Quick’s Dominant Outing Leads No. 12 Alabama Baseball to 4-1 Win on Saturday
4/12/2025 5:59:00 PM | Baseball
The right-hander produced career-highs in strikeouts and innings pitched in the victory
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – After surrendering a solo home run to the game's first batter, No. 12 Alabama baseball did not allow another run to cross in Saturday's contest, as the Crimson Tide leveled its weekend series against Mississippi State with a 4-1 victory over the Bulldogs at Sewell-Thomas Stadium. Five Alabama arms contributed to the one-run outing, while the Tide offense struck for two runs in both the second and seventh innings to claim the victory. With the result, Alabama is now 29-7 overall and 8-6 in Southeastern Conference play.
Riley Quick (5-1) dazzled in his return to the mound, working a career-long 5.1 innings with six hits, striking out seven men and not issuing a walk. Quick's seven strikeouts were the most by the right-hander in his Alabama career and the second-most strikeouts by an Alabama starting pitcher in SEC play this season. Connor Lehman and Austin Morris combined to pitch a scoreless sixth inning, while Hagan Banks allowed just one hit and walked one batter in his 2.0 innings of action. Carson Ozmer earned his 11th save of the season after pitching a scoreless ninth, stranding a pair of Bulldogs with a pop-up to close out the win.
Richie Bonomolo Jr. led the offensive attack, managing a 2-for-3 line that featured a two-run double and a sacrifice fly, totaling three RBI on the afternoon. Jason Torres recorded a pair of singles as part of his 2-for-4 outing, driving in an insurance run in the seventh.
From Head Coach Rob Vaughn
"Good win. We talk a lot about resilience and toughness all the time and we showed it today. We talked about our mindset going into the game and we wanted to be those things, and the guys just lived it today. I was proud of our response after [Gehrig] Frei's home run. It would've been easy to play the 'here we go again' game but we did the exact opposite. I thought the story of the game was Riley Quick. That's as good as you can throw a baseball. He just executed with his fastball and cutter and landed the secondary stuff to work into advantage counts. Hagan Banks gave us two great innings and Carson Ozmer was just professional there at the end. We did enough offensively but the way those guys threw the baseball was outstanding."
How It Happened
- T1 | A leadoff home run opened the scoring. (1-0, Mississippi State)
- B2 | After Will Hodo and Coleman Mizell each walked to open the inning, Richie Bonomolo Jr. snuck a double into the left field corner to score both men. (2-1, Alabama)
- B7| A leadoff double by Brady Neal and a well-placed bunt single by Jon Young Jr. placed runners on the corners with no outs. Richie Bonomolo Jr. then lifted a sacrifice fly to center to score Neal. Following Bonomolo Jr., Justin Lebron singled to place runners on first and second with one out. Two batters later, Jason Torres poked a single into left to score Young Jr. (4-1, Alabama)
Postgame Notes
- Riley Quick turned in the longest outing of his career, tossing 5.1 innings, surpassing his previous career-high of 5.0 innings set at Texas A&M on March 15
- The righty also recorded a career-high seven strikeouts and did not walk a batter for the first time since Feb. 15 against Bradley
- Hagan Banks also turned in his longest outing of the year, working 2.0 scoreless frames
- Carson Ozmer notched his 11th save of the season, moving into a five-way tie for the sixth-most saves in a single season in program history
- Since entering the leadoff spot nine games ago, Richard Bonomolo Jr. is hitting 14-for-36 (.389) with four doubles, two triples, three home runs, 11 RBI, three walks and a hit-by-pitch, reaching base in all nine contests
- Bonomolo Jr. has notched a hit in each of the last five games, going 10-for-21 (.476) with three doubles, two triples, a home run, five RBI, one walk, one hit-by-pitch and six runs scored over that span
- Kade Snell is also riding a five-game hitting streak. Snell is 5-for-20 (.250) with three RBI, two walks and a run scored in those contests
- The Crimson Tide walked just one man, marking the fourth time this season that the Tide has allowed one walk or less
- Jason Torres advanced his on-base streak to 16 games
- Brady Neal reached base for the seventh consecutive game
- Alabama played in front of a sold-out Sewell-Thomas Stadium for the third time this season and the 47th occasion since 2016
- ATTENDANCE: 5,800
Up Next
- Alabama will look to take the series when it returns to Sewell-Thomas Stadium on Sunday, April 13
- The rubber game between Crimson Tide and the Bulldogs is set for 1 p.m. CT, airing on SEC Network+
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Quick, Riley (5-1)
L: Siary, Evan (0-1)
S: Ozmer, Carson (11)
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Batting:
2B: Frei, Gehrig 1 ; Sullivan, Noah 1
HR: Frei, Gehrig 1
RBI: Frei, Gehrig 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Frei, Gehrig 1
HBP: Hines, Hunter 1
Batting:
2B: Bonomolo Jr., Richie 1 ; Neal, Brady 1
RBI: Bonomolo Jr., Richie 3 ; Torres, Jason 1
SF: Bonomolo Jr., Richie 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Hodo, Will 1 ; Mizell, Coleman 1 ; Neal, Brady 1 ; Young Jr., Jon 1
