The Tide offense tied its season-high total for homers with three on the day
2/26/2021
TUSCALOOSA, AL – Alabama baseball received an impressive outing from starter Tyler Ras and paired his performance on the mound with three home runs to down Wright State, 8-4, on Friday afternoon at Sewell-Thomas Stadium. The win moved UA to 5-1 on the young season.
Ras (1-0) made the start in place of Connor Prielipp and didn't skip a beat. The junior tossed a career-long 6.0 innings, allowing only one run on one hit with two walks and five strikeouts. He retired 13 of the final 15 batters he faced before exiting the game after the sixth.
The offense gave Ras a cushion early with Peyton Wilson homering to lead off Friday's game. The bats then added two in the second and three in the fourth to widen the gap. Wilson was joined by Zane Denton and T.J. Reeves, who each added a homer of their own. Caden Rose contributed a team-high three RBI as part of his 2-for-3 showing, tying Denton, Reeves and William Hamiter for the team-lead in hits. Hamiter finished his day with three runs scored to pace UA in that category.
From Head Coach Brad Bohannon
"We played really well for eight, eight-and-a-half innings today. It all started with Tyler Ras on the mound. Wow, what a first inning; it was a great lesson to our young pitchers of how when you're pitching or you're on defense you can create momentum for the offense. Ras came out – awesome body language and presence – attacking the strike zone with his fastball, and then Peyton (Wilson) got us started with the home run in the bottom of the first. I was really excited to see a lot of hard contact up and down the lineup and I thought we were really good offensively tonight, too."
How It Happened
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2/26/2021
TUSCALOOSA, AL – Alabama baseball received an impressive outing from starter Tyler Ras and paired his performance on the mound with three home runs to down Wright State, 8-4, on Friday afternoon at Sewell-Thomas Stadium. The win moved UA to 5-1 on the young season.
Ras (1-0) made the start in place of Connor Prielipp and didn't skip a beat. The junior tossed a career-long 6.0 innings, allowing only one run on one hit with two walks and five strikeouts. He retired 13 of the final 15 batters he faced before exiting the game after the sixth.
The offense gave Ras a cushion early with Peyton Wilson homering to lead off Friday's game. The bats then added two in the second and three in the fourth to widen the gap. Wilson was joined by Zane Denton and T.J. Reeves, who each added a homer of their own. Caden Rose contributed a team-high three RBI as part of his 2-for-3 showing, tying Denton, Reeves and William Hamiter for the team-lead in hits. Hamiter finished his day with three runs scored to pace UA in that category.
From Head Coach Brad Bohannon
"We played really well for eight, eight-and-a-half innings today. It all started with Tyler Ras on the mound. Wow, what a first inning; it was a great lesson to our young pitchers of how when you're pitching or you're on defense you can create momentum for the offense. Ras came out – awesome body language and presence – attacking the strike zone with his fastball, and then Peyton (Wilson) got us started with the home run in the bottom of the first. I was really excited to see a lot of hard contact up and down the lineup and I thought we were really good offensively tonight, too."
How It Happened
- B1 | Peyton Wilson led off the game with a solo shot to right-center to get Alabama on the board first. The leadoff home run was his second of the season and his third home run overall. (1-0, Alabama)
- T2 | A two-out solo home run from Wright State evened things up. (1-1)
- B2 | Zane Denton led off the second with a single and came home in the next at-bat as William Hamiter doubled down the line in right for an RBI. After a groundout, Jim Jarvis singled on the infield to put runners on the corners for Caden Rose. The freshman grounded into a 4-3 fielder's choice but brought in Hamiter on the play for a second run in the inning. (3-1, Alabama)
- B4 | Denton led the inning off with a solo home run. After a groundout, T.J. Reeves delivered a roundtripper of his own for his first homer of the 2021 campaign. The Tide then proceeded to load the bases before a Drew Williamson two-out walk pushed across one more. (6-1, Alabama)
- B5 | With a runner on second and two down, Rose sent a ball to right that bounced over the wall for a ground-rule RBI-double. (7-1, Alabama)
- T7 | Wright State used three hits and a pair of Alabama errors to make it a three-run contest. (7-4, Alabama)
- B7 | Rose recorded his team-high third RBI of the night with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly for the Tide's final run on Friday. (8-4, Alabama)
- Tyler Ras pitched a career-long 6.0 innings. His previous best for innings was 5.0 which he had against Maine on March 19, 2019.
- Ras struck out five to match his career-high total. The junior had struck out five on two other occasions, most recently in that start against Maine.
- Eight of Alabama's nine starters recorded at least one hit on the afternoon with all nine starters reaching base safely at least once.
- Alabama has recorded two-or-more home runs in five of six games this season. The Tide recorded two home runs on three occasions so far and totaled three homers twice, including today's series-opener with Wright State.
- Peyton Wilson's leadoff home run was his second of the season and third home run overall. Wilson also homered to lead off the Jacksonville State game on Tuesday.
- Owen Diodati finished 1-for-4 to move his hitting streak to eight games. Diodati is batting .357 (10-28) with a double, one triple, three home runs, 11 RBI, nine runs, six walks, three hit-by-pitch and a stolen base across that time.
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