TUSCALOOSA, Ala.— Patrick Murphy doesn't even know how many times he's said it this season. "Murph all year long has said, ‘Follow the home run. Follow the home run,'" Alabama outfielder Audrey Vandagriff said. "Sometimes we do it, sometimes we don’t. But one thing about our team is we’re very consistent, so that’s just one thing I really want to do for Murph, I wanna do for our team. Once Marlie hit that home run, the floodgates open.” Marlie Giles blasted a one-out solo home in the second inning to start a six-run rally for the Crimson Tide on the way to an 8-0 run-rule victory over USC Upstate in the NCAA tournament opener for No. 1 Alabama. Vandagriff followed it up with a single, and Alabama scored six runs on six hits in the inning. It put to fruition something that the Crimson Tide head coach has been preaching all season. "I just feel like if they give up a home run, but then they get three in a row out, they have their confidence back," Murphy explained.…