As the sun set on perhaps the most shocking day in Alabama baseball history, the Tide scored one of their biggest wins of a suddenly chaotic season Thursday night.
Fourth-year outfielder Andrew Pinckney sent a second-inning grand slam over the left field fence of Sewell-Thomas Stadium, which was all Alabama needed to beat fifth-ranked Vanderbilt just hours after the university fired its sixth-year coach, Brad Bohannon.
The 11-2 victory marked the beginning of the tenure of interim head coach Jason Jackson, previously Bohannon’s pitching coach. Jackson and Alabama players were not expected to be made available to reporters after the game, the first since details emerged about Bohannon having direct contact with a person making bets in Cincinnati on LSU to beat Alabama last Friday.
The wagers were flagged as suspicious by U.S. Integrity, a third-party monitor that alerted Ohio’s gaming authorities and is also contracted with the SEC to watch betting activity on the conference’s…
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