UAB Baseball defeated Memphis by a score of 11-2 on April 26, marking the Blazers’ first winning season since 2022. The team recorded over ten hits for the fifth time in their last six games.
The game remained scoreless until the bottom of the third inning when Kevin Hall Jr. drew a two-out walk and scored from first base on John Paul Head’s ninth double of the season. With this, UAB improved its record to 21-2 when scoring first.
A significant moment came in the fifth inning as UAB scored five runs, highlighted by Head’s three-run home run—his sixteenth of the season. Brady Waugh contributed with a sacrifice fly that brought in Landon Beaver, and Wesley Helms added another run by scoring Alex Dupuy.
Pitcher Mason Steele made his first start in sixteen days and delivered four scoreless innings with seven strikeouts and only one hit allowed, earning his fifth win of the year. Memphis managed to add single runs in both the sixth and seventh innings through RBI hits from Brady McAbee and Freddy Rodriguez.
In response, UAB extended its lead with five more runs at the bottom of the seventh inning before recording an out. Home runs from Landon Beaver and Andrew Hunt pushed their season totals to five each. Brendan Conner closed out the game by shutting down Memphis over two innings.
Sunday marked UAB’s sixteenth game this season with ten or more runs scored. The team has now hit sixty-two home runs this year—a milestone reached only four other times in program history. Head tied his career high with three hits and notched four RBIs, ranking him fourth in The American conference for RBIs this season at forty-five. Beaver had his fifth career three-hit game while finishing nine-for-seventeen during the week.
With no midweek matchup scheduled, UAB will next play Rice on Friday at Reckling Park.
