Instant Analysis: No. 17 Alabama Baseball Beats Alabama State 12-0.

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00:00 I am Will Miller here with Kim Rankin for BamaCentral.com's instant analysis at

00:04 Sewell Thomas Stadium once again for the second runnable victory of the season

00:08 for the Alabama Crimson Tide. 12 to nothing over the Alabama State Hornets

00:11 in the first of two meetings between these teams this season. Game could have

00:15 gone in a different direction based on the early innings but it turned into

00:17 another dominating shutout, a complete team performance. Kim, what were some of

00:21 your thoughts? Yeah, absolutely. I mean you kind of said it just there. I mean it

00:24 looked like it was going to be a pitcher's duel for about the first half

00:26 of the game and then you know Alabama had two monster innings on the offensive

00:30 side. They had a seven run inning in the fourth and another five run inning in the

00:33 fifth to give them those 12 runs. But I thought you know freshman left-handed

00:37 pitcher Zane Adams who started for the Crimson Tide today looked really good. He

00:40 went four innings. It was his first collegiate start but not his debut. He did one

00:45 inning of relief work on Saturday against Manhattan College but I thought

00:48 he looked good as a whole. Went about four innings and then you had Matthew

00:51 Heiberger, Pierce George, and Jansen Kenty all coming for relief today with

00:55 really only allowing three hits and walking four and that was it. You had no

01:00 runs, nothing else on the board. So very very impressive by them and also not

01:04 only was this just a shutout but this was the third shutout in five games of

01:08 the season so far. So a very impressive February for the Alabama pitching staff.

01:13 What about the, what did you see from the backs? Well it has been the TJ McCann

01:16 show. Anybody that's been anywhere near this ballpark's got to understand the

01:19 Ole Miss transfer has put together a run not only of great power but just

01:24 professional hitting and now he's up to three home runs, 13 ribbies in five games.

01:28 These are incredible marks and this is as good of a start as he could have

01:34 hoped for. He's been batting in the two-hole every game thus far and he's

01:38 getting on base. He's sending them home even when he doesn't hit home runs. He

01:41 also had a prolific opening weekend. It's not like he's just come out of nowhere

01:44 over the past two days for these midweeks. Bryce Edlin was good again. He

01:49 sent home a couple of more runs after breaking out for his first hit and then a

01:52 home run last night against Middle Tennessee. The offense seems to be

01:56 finding it. Coach Vaughn has said early in the season it's always a work in

01:59 progress and that's baseball sometimes but double digit hits as well. Like I

02:03 said, complete team performance. The offense is firing on all cylinders right now.

02:08 Yeah, absolutely. I mean just just about as good of a start I think we keep

02:12 saying every game but really just as good of a start as you can get for this

02:14 Alabama baseball team especially after they lost so much in this offseason and

02:19 not really knowing what you were gonna do with a bunch of transfers and a bunch

02:21 of freshmen and a bunch of new people coming in. So absolutely phenomenal. We'll

02:25 see how they do this weekend but thanks for watching Constant Analysis here on

02:28 VEVA Central.