Alabama completes rare trifecta of Auburn dominance with baseball sweep
By David Wasson
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As any Alabama athletics fan will tell you, there is just a little extra juice that comes with beating Auburn – in anything. But in all three major sports?
The Crimson Tide baseball team completed a three-game series sweep of No. 5 Auburn on Sunday via a 3-1 victory, which also completed Alabama’s sweep of Auburn in football, men’s basketball and baseball in the 2025-26 academic year.
Alabama’s football team downed Auburn 27-20 in the annual Iron Bowl, the Tide men’s basketball team earned 96-92 and 96-84 Iron Bowl of Basketball victories and the Alabama baseball team won the first two games of the baseball series 11-1 and 3-2 earlier this weekend.
Alabama broke open Sunday’s game on the diamond in the eighth inning. Tied 1-1, Auburn reliever Garrett Brewer uncorked a wild pitch to score Alabama’s Justin Lebron and Will Plattner followed it up two batters later with an RBI single for a 3-1 lead.
Lebron also had an RBI single in the third inning. Auburn’s lone run Sunday came via Eric Guevara’s RBI single in the first inning.
Alabama reliever Matthew Heiberger (2-0) earned the victory, while Brewer (1-2) took the loss for Auburn. The Tigers mustered just two hits in the game and struck out eight times. Alabama managed only four hits and registered seven strikeouts.
An APSE national award-winning writer and editor, David Wasson has almost four decades of experience in the print journalism business in Florida and Alabama. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and several national magazines and websites. His Twitter handle: @JustDWasson.
