There have been too many heartbreaking games for Alabama softball this SEC season. Far too many for the players, the coaches and the fans. There are not many ways you can describe this game. It was as tight as a game can be – until it wasn’t, in the top of the ninth.
Auburn scratched out three runs and the Tide could not respond in the bottom half of the inning.
You can’t blame pitching. Alexis Osorio was astounding. Even when behind the count and with runners in scoring position, she kept getting strikeouts. Osorio shutout Auburn through seven innings, when she was pulled due to a high pitch count.