After Friday night’s offense-less debacle of a walk-off loss, Saturday afternoon brought some early fireworks, some horrific and impactful ball-and-strike calls, and a 5-3 Tiger defeat.
Alabama’s own Casey Mize made his sixth start for the Tigers. He’s been solid this year so far, coming off injury, with a typical outing seeing him pitch five or six innings and give up a pair of runs or so. He’s been generally good with the walks; regaining one’s command after Tommy John surgery can be a challenge, but that hasn’t been a big problem this season so far. Coming into today he’d only given up one home run.