Jun 5, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY The only difficulty Montana Fouts faced against the No. 2 team in the country Friday night was her own necklace getting tangled up in her protective mask. I left a couple pitches I wasn t really happy with the spin on them, but I thought they were a little flat so I ran into the dugout, and I told Steph [van Brakle Prothro] I thought Jesus was trying to tell me something to spin it a little bit, Fouts said.
She did a little more than spin it to the Bruins. Fouts was perfect, literally, as she did not allow one UCLA baserunner to reach in Alabama s 6-0 win to send the No. 3 Crimson Tide (52-7) to the Women s College World Series semifinals.
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Montana Fouts held her own in the circle, throwing the first perfect game in the Women’s College World Series since 2000.
“I didn t think she would get better from yesterday,” head coach Patrick Murphy said. “But she did. To throw a perfect game against legendary UCLA is something else for a kid from a small town from northeast Kentucky. So it’s just an unbelievable feeling.”
The Grayson, Ky., native went to work at the very beginning of the first inning. Fouts faced leadoff batter and Olympian, Bubba Nickles, and forced her to groundout. Six pitches later, she recorded her first strikeout of the night against Rachel Garcia, the starting pitcher, and the other Olympian on UCLA s team.
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How special was Montana Fouts perfect game?
It was the sixth in WCWS history, the first since Southern Miss’ Courtney Blades in 2000 days before Fouts was born.
It is the sixth postseason no-hitter for Alabama and the first postseason perfect game
The win was the first over UCLA in program history, breaking a streak of 10-straight wins by the Bruins in the all-time series