Instant Analysis: No. 25 Alabama Baseball Takes Series From No. 1 Arkansas

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00:00Welcome to Bama Central's Instant Analysis. I am Will Miller here with Kim

00:04Rankin after a big series win for number 25 Alabama over number one Arkansas here

00:09in Tuscaloosa. Five to nothing your score here today on Sunday afternoon. The story

00:13of today is Zane Adams spinning an absolute gem. The freshman coming in

00:16weekend rotation has been besieged by injuries. What's he do? He just comes out

00:20here and throws a shutout in and he's against one of the best teams in the

00:23country and a team that was right up there in pole position in the

00:26conference. Alabama gets two big SEC wins this weekend regardless of who

00:30they're playing those wins are huge for the conference standings but another big

00:34win yesterday and extra innings overall just a badly needed effort strung

00:38together by this ball club. Yeah absolutely I mean they came in in a

00:41really rough position losing five games in a row obviously getting swept in

00:44Lexington last weekend and then losing that midweek game where you were up four

00:49to nothing and then gave away five unanswered runs by South Alabama, four

00:53and then gate one against Arkansas obviously they scored five quick runs

00:57Alabama attempted to come back there Friday night but just couldn't get it

01:00done lost five to three to give them the fifth loss in that slump and then

01:04bounce back last night in extras with you know you had two solo shots and then

01:08Arkansas responded with two solo shots right back and it looked like we had one

01:11in the bottom of the eighth with T.J. McCants hitting that RBI double and then with two

01:15outs at the top of the ninth Arkansas's Peyton Stovall tied up the game and

01:18then took it to extras where Mason Swinney scored the game-winning run on

01:22an error by the Arkansas pitcher and I mean regardless of who you're playing I

01:25know Arkansas's the number one team in the nation possibly playing the Knights

01:28number one team in the nation next week so very very rough homestand but I mean

01:33no matter who you're playing right here in this position after losing you know

01:35four or five games in a row that's just a huge huge huge momentum push to win

01:39whatever series it is to kind of get back into the swing of things and good

01:42on Alabama for not kind of letting that slump get to them and kind of keeping

01:46them back in the conversation here not only the SEC but the national rankings I

01:50assume they're gonna still be ranked here come tomorrow when D1 releases

01:53their rankings we got absolutely incredible weekend on both sides of the

01:57ball pitching and batting which have both struggled in this little slump.

02:00That's true but there's no rest for the weary because it's more likely than not

02:03that Texas A&M does slide at that number one position and that is who comes to

02:07town here in Tuscaloosa next weekend that's a team that's got some scuds yeah

02:11and everybody's difficult in the SEC nobody's winning on the road the

02:15parodies through the roof LSU and Florida both struggling but it's not

02:20about that right now you're playing Texas A&M you got out of this slump

02:23losing five games in a row like you mentioned some in really really tough

02:27fashion some way or another but we'll see what happens either way big series

02:31win here over Arkansas something this ballclub needed and thank you for

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