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Schedule Update: Tennessee vs. Alabama pushed to Wednesday afternoon

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Hoover Metropolitan Stadium. Mandatory credit: Jake Thompson

Due to inclement weather in the Hoover area Wednesday night, the fourth game (Mississippi State vs. Texas A&M) of the opening day of the Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament has been pushed to Wednesday morning.

Thus, Tennessee and Alabama’s originally scheduled 10:30 AM ET start time will be pushed to approximately 2 o’clock ET later Wednesday afternoon.  

It will be the first outing for No. 8 seed Tennessee in Hoover this go-around. No. 9 seed Alabama defeated No. 16 seed Missouri 4-1 on Tuesday to advance on in the tournament. The winner between the Volunteers and Tide will go on to face No. 1 seed Texas on Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock ET.   

Other finals on Tuesday to begin the tournament included No. 12 seed Oklahoma 5-1 over No. 13 Kentucky and No. 10 Florida 11-3 over No. 15 South Carolina.  

Junior right-handed hurler Marcus Phillips (3-4, 3.72 ERA) will make the start for the Vols. Several other top-hurlers for Tennessee will be made available of the contest as well out of the bullpen.

“Just that Marcus (Phillips), (AJ) Russell, (Nate) Sneed, (Tanner) Franklin are all rested. (Dylan) Loy and (Brandon) Arvidson have been our two lefties we’ve leaned on the most. Those guys are, you know, as fresh as you’d think,” the coach said on Tuesday. “All those guys will be available and we’ll kind of try and throw the kitchen sink at them.”

Tennessee needs some positives. The Vols dropped their final five weekend series and six of the past seven. UT is currently on the outside looking in with regards to hosting an NCAA Regional next weekend in Knoxville. Tennessee hasn’t won back-to-back conference games in over a month.

“How single-elimination has affected us is we kind of just tried to prepare like tomorrow is the only game of the weekend,” skipper Tony Vitello said on Tuesday to the media via zoom. “I think it makes it a lot more intense.”

The NCAA Baseball Selection Show will air on ESPN at noon ET Monday, May 26, following the conclusion of the SEC Tournament on Sunday.

Updated Schedule for SEC Baseball Tournament

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