As Kevin Costner said in the movie “Bull Durham”: Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.

It turns out not even rain could save the Alabama baseball team Monday as the Crimson Tide fell 11-1 to Florida State. The game was set to start on Sunday, but severe weather postponed the game with the Tide trailing 8-1 in the sixth inning.

“Being down seven was pretty tough,” centerfielder Taylor Dugas said.  “We knew we needed to put some hits together, and FSU did a great job coming right at us and locating down in the zone. We swung the bats pretty well, but it wasn’t easy starting in such a hole.”

The Crimson Tide fought its way to within two wins of reaching its second straight Super Regional, beating UCF twice to advance to a final matchup with Florida State.

Though Alabama did not attain its goal of reaching the College World Series, the team has much to celebrate.

“I think when you look back to last year and finishing in a Super Regional, we had an older and more experienced team compared to this year’s,” head coach Mitch Gaspard said. “This was a rebuilt team, losing our two-through-six hitters in our lineup and some frontline pitchers made things difficult at times. What I’m most proud about with this team was that it was a real team; we aren’t going to have a top pick in the draft, but we have a lot of players that love one another and the staff.”

The team bonded through adversities such as the April 27 tornado, something that players said made the team stronger.

“That day isn’t one we like to look back on,” shortstop Jared Reaves said. “But after it happened, we sort of came together and wanted to win for the team and city. It made us closer, and we put it all on the table.”

Reaves said that despite the loss, he is proud of his team and he looks at the past season as a positive one.

“Looking back to opening day, it’s difficult to go out like this,” Reaves said. “Our main goal was to make it to Omaha, but making it to this game would still make this season a success.”