The replay availability got a little weird. I wrote ESPN an email telling them about the problem that on the OU v Alabama link, we were getting FSU at UTenn instead. I woke up this morning with their having replied that the glitch was fixed, with a link attached. The link wasn't fixed.
So I called them and was told it had been pulled, which wasn't true. But after 25 minutes on the phone, with my telling the nice idiot on the phone that wasn't true, that they'd just screwed up their details online, she finally got to the place and they are "working on it."
You ought to be able to watch a replay this afternoon, I suspect. They're supposed to send me another email when it's fixed. Watching the last two innings are worth the effort.
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Roy I understand the challenges of hitting a good rise ball. The real issue is laying off the pitch in your eyes. It's not like a drop ball in baseball. It's like a good rising fastball at the shoulders. When it's in the middle of the plate, it's hard to lay off because it looks hittable.
Last night, the Sooners actually had three ground outs, but only one was really a ground out, by Parker, who isn't going to beat out anything on the ground. The other two were sac bunts. The only other ground ball was the single up the middle by Parsons that started the rally.
We don't know how good Alabama's infield defense is, because we NEVER tested them. Everything else was in the air. The infield was kind of ragged. Arnold, who plays a great third base, got a horrible hop on a grounder that was ruled an error, but that Brooks Robinson would have been challenged to play. It changed directions on the second hop.
Balls in the air don't take bad hops.
The Sooners got it done. And need to one more time today. And OU played a very high quality of defense after the first batter of the first til the first batter of the seventh. The latter was just a well designed hard bunt past Chamberlain who was charging so hard that it went between her and Parker.
But the approach at the plate produced six innings out of seven with no hits.