Softball 2025-expectations?

[BamaHoHo]

I grew up around softball, with my mom playing. This sport is a little closer to home for me. I played baseball, so I follow the baseball program about equally to softball. I'm not a basketball guy, so these two have always been a little higher on the totem pole for me.

Seeing the drop off in softball is disheartening. Knowing of the "stuff" that probably caused this over the years is also disheartening.

I'd be very excited to see a better product put on the field, we've been surpassed by many many programs now. Feels like every year we're falling just a little further behind.

I mean, look at where we are just in the SEC now. We are behind Oklahoma, Texas, LSU, Florida, Texas A&M, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi State, and Ole Miss.

We aren't even in the top half of the conference anymore.

On a tangent....I do wish ESPN's website had more on college baseball and softball other than just lumping into "College Sports" along with hockey, fencing, lacrosse etc.

12th in the conference when we should be top 3-5 in the country. Murphy makes it to the World Series and thinks we have had a successful season. We have been 15 times and only won 1. We should have won 4 or 5 more. But again you have to give he credit for building the program. He has helped build the travel ball and High School teams by building the Bama program.

 

[81usaf92]

12th in the conference when we should be top 3-5 in the country. Murphy makes it to the World Series and thinks we have had a successful season. We have been 15 times and only won 1. We should have won 4 or 5 more. But again you have to give he credit for building the program. He has helped build the travel ball and High School teams by building the Bama program.

we should atleast have 1 more than what we have had… maybe 2. My problem is that we never even got to a Finals with Osorio and Montana. Idk if we could’ve beaten Oklahoma with that lineup but the 21 team should’ve beaten FSU atleast once and advanced.

 

[JDCrimson]

What we have is the softball version of 90s Braves Baseball...

 

[TideATL70]

Valid comparison to the Braves run of 14 straight playoffs and only one WS championship. While Murph is undoubtedly a legend and deserves every single accolade for building the program, those folks who can win more than one are on a different level. I may be dreaming but I'd LOVE for Murph to win another, say in his 30th year (or earlier and retire on top. But, the recent trend is concerning. I'll admit I don't know how difficult it is to find a dominant pitcher like Van Brakle, J Train, Osorio, Fouts, even The Beav- but we really need one. I think the bats are coming around but all our staff are probably #2/#3 in a top team's rotation. Still, Briski is young- hope she sticks around the next two years.

 

[BamaHoHo]

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we should atleast have 1 more than what we have had… maybe 2. My problem is that we never even got to a Finals with Osorio and Montana. Idk if we could’ve beaten Oklahoma with that lineup but the 21 team should’ve beaten FSU atleast once and advanced.

i think the 2008 team is the best we’ve ever. We missed winning that one. We should have won 1 or 2 with McClenny and 1or 2 with Fouts. Gasso took Sabans floor plan and look what she’s done. Murphy had the blueprints 1 mile down the road and didn’t follow it . But oh well long live live madita!

 

[Krymsonman]

BAMA drops game one to Georgia 4-3. Didn't see it all, but Georgia took a 4-2 lead into the bottom of the 7th. We scored 1 run on 2 errors by Georgia. (dropped pop up by second baseman, bad throw by SS that pulled 1st base off the bag). Overall, BAMA had 7 hits, but also had 3 errors.

 

[TideATL70]

Looking good here on Sunday with the 6-4 lead-after a 5 run third inning. Bats are hot today and an error by UGA helped. I’ll say this- I was frustrated for years with Murph not really using a full “staff” of pitchers and he has adapted in that area. With Briski not YET a true Ace, we are seeing a lot of folks in the circle seemingly every game. Whatever works!!!!

 

[81usaf92]

This was one of the more winnable series so we needed it.

 

[TideATL70]

Keeps the streak (the good kind!) that UGa has never won a series in Titletown. Certainly not going to be favored in the next 3 series- LSU OU and FLA but would love to us steal one series at least.

 

[Krymsonman]

14 hits today by BAMA, so maybe we're finding something. I'm still a little reserved on this as this is not one of Georgia's better teams. But we need to win this series, especially since the next three are at LSU, Oklahoma at home, and at Florida. Hopefully we have found something that will keep us competitive. Roll Tide.

 

[Krymsonman]

Well, not a good start to the LSU series as LSU takes the first game with an 8-0 run rule victory. We managed 4 hits and no runs in five innings. LSU is a top tier program right now and I hope this was just a bad day and won't be the norm when we play a top team. Let's see what happens tomorrow.

 

[TideATL70]

Yep, you’re right Krymson- I’d imagine you can count on one hand the times we’ve been run ruled in SEC play over the years. But even with our struggles I think this team will fight back- would really like Briski to have a great start- with all the talk preseason that she was the Ace, that would do wonders for her confidence.

 

[Krymsonman]

Yep, you’re right Krymson- I’d imagine you can count on one hand the times we’ve been run ruled in SEC play over the years. But even with our struggles I think this team will fight back- would really like Briski to have a great start- with all the talk preseason that she was the Ace, that would do wonders for her confidence.
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Looks like Briski did have a great outing today. Held LSU's pretty potent offense to 2 runs. Unfortunately, we only scored 1 run, so Briski took the loss. Can we salvage a game tomorrow? I guess we will see.

 

[Krymsonman]

Well, we kind of looked like we should look today against LSU. Salvaged a win even though we had already lost the series. We swung the bat pretty good. It was against some of LSU's down the line pitchers but I'll take it. I wish we had done this in games 1 and 2.

 

[TideATL70]

Against the top 4-6 teams in the conference I’m expecting taking 1 of 3 at best- like you I was excited to see Briski have a strong outing against a loaded lineup

much like the Gymnastics team, maybe we’ll peak at the right time!!!!

 

[Krymsonman]

Against the top 4-6 teams in the conference I’m expecting taking 1 of 3 at best- like you I was excited to see Briski have a strong outing against a loaded lineup

much like the Gymnastics team, maybe we’ll peak at the right time!!!!

That's what I hope. If you go back and look at all of our losses, several were by 1 run, and some were leads given up late in games. A timely hit here or there in any of those games, and this team has a better record. I'm hoping we're rounding into shape, but we'll find out real quick over the next two weekends. Roll Tide!

 

[statgrad96]

Against the top 4-6 teams in the conference I’m expecting taking 1 of 3 at best- like you I was excited to see Briski have a strong outing against a loaded lineup

much like the Gymnastics team, maybe we’ll peak at the right time!!!!

At least with Softball, the fans still show up. I was embarrassed by our poor turnout for the Gymnastics team at Regionals this weekend in Coleman. There were almost as many Florida fans as there were Alabama fans...

 

[81usaf92]

Well what could have been a monumental win turned into an epic collapse. Murphy outsmarted himself by taking out a pitcher that had Oklahoma totally fooled and putting in Briski to end it. We gave up 5 runs in the 7th and lost 5-1.

 

[Tide Rev]

You have a pitcher who handcuffed OU all day. You take her out and OU blows the game open. Then you put the starter back in???? Somebody please explain this to me…

 

[Krymsonman]

Well what could have been a monumental win turned into an epic collapse. Murphy outsmarted himself by taking out a pitcher that had Oklahoma totally fooled and putting in Briski to end it. We gave up 5 runs in the 7th and lost 5-1.

Yeah, after that home run we just quit. Why he took out Riley is just another one of his questionable moves.
And I"m not fully versed in softball rules, but if a runner runs the entire length of the baseline to first inside the baseline, shouldn't that be an obstruction by the runner. How can the umpires miss such an obvious call? Or, is that legal in softball. If that HR only tied the game, maybe it turns out different.