Harvard gives up inside-the-park home run with three errors on one play vs. Alabama
Kolby Robinson didn’t have to force anything. Getting the ball in play would have been more than enough.
When Alabama baseball’s senior shortstop stepped into the batter’s box in the eighth inning, UA had just taken a 4-3 lead with no outs. The worst possible outcome — grounding into a double play — would still have been enough to bring in an insurance run and keep the inning alive.
That worst possible outcome looked as if it were coming to fruition, when Robinson’s chopper was collected by Harvard first baseman Logan Bravo. The three throws that followed scored two more UA runs, turning a thrilling come-from-behind win into Alabama’s eighth win of five runs or more.
Three errors in one play — on top of another one earlier in the eighth — preserved Alabama’s undefeated start in a 10-5 win. The Tide improving to 11-0 makes it tied for the second-best start in school history with the 1998 team; the 1997 team holds the record with 15 straight wins to start its season.
