The Alabama Crimson Tide traveled two hours up the road to Huntsville to play the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders in a neutral site game on Tuesday night. The Tide used two big innings and stellar relief pitching to take a victory by the score of 10-4. Bama improved to 20-6 on the season while the Raiders fell to 11-13. The game was played at Toyota Field in Madison, home of the Huntsville Trash Pandas of the Double A Southern League.
Jacob McNairy drew the starting assignment for the Tide and for three innings looked untouchable. Through the first three frames McNairy faced the minimum of nine batters and struck out six of them.