TUSCALOOSA, Ala.— Alabama softball is having a record-breaking season. A big part of the Crimson Tide's success this season has been the power at the plate. Alabama has hit 82 home runs so far this year with at least six more games to go starting with the regular-season finale against South Carolina this weekend. However, that success didn't start in the season opener against Villanova back on Feb. 5 (even though Alabama did hit seven home runs in the 17-0 win.) It started when head coach Patrick Murphy and longtime strength and conditioning coach Michelle Diltz sat down in the summer to work out plans for the new roster. "She comes over in July right after the 4th of July when everybody’s kind of coming back from vacation," Murphy said of Diltz. "She sits down, and she has her notepad, and she’s like a mad scientist starting to rub her hands together. She’s like, ‘OK. What do we want to do this year?’ And every single year, she does that. We have the roster laid out in front of us.…