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ALABAMA Crimson Tide Baseball - Week 10

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Alabama (25-15, 8-10 SEC) recorded its first SEC series sweep of the 2010 season, winning all three games against Mississippi State at Sewell-Thomas Stadium … The Crimson Tide owns a six-game winning streak over the Bulldogs, its longest in the series since 1997-98 … Alabama has won five straight series over MSU for the first time since 1955-60, when UA won six straight series … In addition, Alabama has posted back-to-back series sweeps over MSU for the first time since 1959, when the Crimson Tide swept a pair of two-game series in Tuscaloosa and Starkville … Alabama and Mississippi State played its third straight weather affected series this past weekend … The teams played for 22 minutes on Friday night before the game was suspended in the bottom of the first inning … The game was finally resumed at 8:31 p.m. on Saturday and completed at 11:45 p.m., but not without a 62-minute rain and lightning delay in the eighth inning … The teams played two-seven inning games on Sunday to complete the series … Alabama had two come-from-behind wins against Mississippi State and now has nine this season, including five in SEC play … The Crimson Tide erased a seven-run deficit in game two of the Mississippi State series and won the game 9-8 in extra innings … Alabama trailed 7-0 in the fourth inning but scored eight times in the bottom of the fourth to take an 8-7 lead … Senior third baseman Jake Smith put UA on the board with a grand slam and junior second baseman Ross Wilson gave the Tide the lead with a three-run home run … Smith now has five career grand slams, one shy of the Alabama record … He has two this season at Kentucky (April 11) and against Mississippi State (April 25) … In both games, his grand slam ignited significant comebacks … Alabama trailed 9-0 in the sixth inning at UK on April 11 and Smith’s grand slam cut the lead to 9-5 … Alabama eventually won the game 11-9 … UA trailed MSU 7-0 in the fourth inning on Sunday before Smith’s grand slam closed the gap to 7-4 and the Tide won 9-8 in extra innings … Smith is also riding a career-best 11-game hitting streak … Junior catcher Brock Bennett was named to the Johnny Bench Award Watch List this weekend … Bennett had both game winning hits on Sunday as the Tide swept its doubleheader with the Bulldogs … He had an RBI single in the eighth inning in game one to score Andrew Miller with the winning run as UA posted a 9-8 win … He had a two-out, two-run single in the nightcap as UA scored five runs in the sixth inning for a 6-4 win.

 

 

 

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