The Dinos and the Spartans met in Price on Tuesday for the first two games of the three game season series. In the first game Wyatt Falk was on the mound for the Dinos, and the Spartans could not find an answer, as the Dinos would take game one 10-0 in five innings. Game two was a little more competitive but Carbon earned a 12-5 win.
Emery holds an 11-10 record with a 5-6 Region 12 mark. The Spartans are one of four teams from the region in the top 10 of the state RPI at No.6.
Carbon is 11-4 with a 7-1 mark in league play, they also sit at No.2 in the RPI and their only region loss came at the hands of No. 3 Canyon View.
Game one really started out as a pitchers dual with Falk and Wade Stilson going back-and-forth, in fact it wasn’t until the bottom of the fourth when Carbon would truly take charge of the game.
With the score 0-0, and Colton Lowe at the plate, Ridge Nelson would score on a steal of home, and then with the first pitch Lowe sent one over the right field fence driving in Michael Vigil. Three batters later and with two outs, Peyton Molinar sent a fly ball to center that allowed Camden Wilson and Quade Henrie to score. a Chet Anderson triple to left field scored Molinar from first. With the score at 6-0, Nelson stepped up sending a double to center bringing in Anderson, and then Vigil would double to left bringing Nelson home. Falk came up next and helping his cause sent a grounder to left as Vigil would score. Wilson came up once again driving in Falk and putting the score at 10-0.
For the Spartans Mason Stilson was 1-2 from the plate and Wade Stilson had a 2-3 game.
On the mound for Emery Wade Stilson got the start and the loss going 3.2, giving up five hits, and three earned with four strike outs. Turner Stoker gave up four hits and three earned in the loss.
For Carbon, Nelson was 2-2 with a pair of runs scored and an RBI. Lowe was 1-1 with a pair of RBI’s and a run scored and Vigil and Molinar were both 1-2 at the plate. Vigil had a pair of runs scored and an RBI and Molinar had a pair of RBI’s and a run scored. All of the Dinos scoring came in the fourth inning.
Falk had a game on the mound for the Dinos, getting the complete game win in five innings, giving up three hits and striking out 13. Falk was one strike away from the “Immaculate Inning”. An immaculate inning occurs in baseball when a pitcher strikes out all three batters he faces in one inning using the minimum possible number of pitches: nine.
Coach Rob Smith joined KOAL after the game and had this to say about Falk. “Wyatt came out and threw awesome, did a great job. The umpire told me he did miss that call, so write it down as an immaculate inning for him.”
If game one was about Wyatt Falk, then game two was about Ridge Nelson. Nelson had a 4-5 performance at the plate with four RBI’s and three runs scored in the 12-5 victory.
Camden Wilson got the start on the mound for the Dinos and had to work through some adversity in the first after hitting three batters, Wilson gave up a single to Hayden Abrams that drove in Wade Stilson. Wilson would also walk in another run putting the first inning score at 2-0 for the Spartans. Nelson was the second batter up for the Dinos and he sent a fly ball over the center field wall driving in Anderson and tying the score at 2-2. Two batters later it was Falk’s turn to show off his offense with a single home run to left making the score 3-2.
In the bottom of the second, Nelson came up to the plate sending a single to left driving in Maizen Prichard and Molinar. Falk would come up sending a single to left bringing home Anderson and Nelson. With the bases loaded Emery pitcher Trevin Gilbert, with the bases loaded, would hit Henrie with a pitch walking in Vigil, putting the score at 8-2.
In the top of the fourth, Carbon would switch to Stockton Kennedy on the mound, and with a pair of outs Kennedy gave up a double to Gannon Ward who drove in Gilbert and Peyton Alton and the Spartans cut the Dinos lead in half at 8-4.
Carbon added two more in the fifth to push the lead to 11-4. Emery had one more chance to rally in the top of the seventh when with two outs Abrams would steal home, but that would do it for the Spartans as they were handed a 12-5 loss.
Ward went 1-3 for the Spartans with a pair of RBI’s and a run scored, Gilbert would also go 1-3 with an RBI and a run scored in the loss for Emery.
Turner Stoker got the start on the mound for Emery going just one inning giving up three hits, three earned runs and struck out one. Easton Nielson came in taking the loss giving up four earned on two hits . Gilbert and Abrams would also log time on the bump for the Spartans.
Wilson was on the hill for Carbon, and after the tough start in the first he settled in giving up two earned on two hits and struck out two in three innings of work. Kennedy came in to earn the win going four, giving up three hits, two earned and struck out five.
Offensively for the Dinos behind Nelson’s big day at the plate, Falk had a day at the plate as well going 4-5 with four RBI’s and a run scored. and Chet Anderson was 2-4 with a pair of runs and an RBI.
Carbon will face Alta on the road on Wednesday.
On Friday Emery will welcome Carbon to Castle Dale for the final meeting of the regular season.
Game time is set for 3:30.