Alexis Osorio may not be all the way back, but there are signs.
There's the confidence with which the University of Alabama softball team's sophomore pitcher stared down Mississippi State's cleanup hitter with the bases loaded in the bottom of the fifth inning Saturday at Rhoads Stadium.
Three pitches: strike one, strike two, strike three. Out three.
There's the riseball that was biting to the tune of nine strikeouts.
There's the result, a five-hitter in an 8-0 victory over the Bulldogs that gave last year's SEC Pitcher of the Year her first SEC win of the season.