On Monday, the long offseason ended for the Carbon baseball team when they welcomed the Grand Red Devils to Price. They played on through the snow, but the Red Devils came away with the 16-2 victory.
Ever since the season ended last May, the Dinos have been looking to get back on the field and Monday was their first opportunity to face an opponent.
Grand came out in the top half of the inning hanging four runs on the Dinos, Trevor Williams got the start on the mound but after giving up a trio of runs he was replaced by Maddex Willson who gave up one run but got the final two outs to end the top of the first. In the bottom half, Paxton Falk came up to the plate with two outs and nobody on and hit a double to center. Logan Madrigal was the next batter up and sent a ground ball to second driving in Falk to get the Dinos on the board.
Grand would add another run in the top of the second to push the score to 5-1. Carbon held the Red Devils scoreless in the top of the third. In the bottom half of the inning, the Dinos were down to their last out when Willson came up to the plate and was thrown four straight balls after the first two pitches were strikes. Stockton Kennedy came up to the plate next and was hit by a pitch. Marcus Vigil would replace Willson on base, and Vigil would quickly advance to third on an error and then would score on the same error cutting into Grand’s lead 5-2.
The rest of the contest was relatively quiet, with the Red Devils adding a pair of runs in the top of the fifth, but in the top of the sixth the Grand bats came to life putting up nine runs and closing out the Dinos 16-2.
Falk collected a hit and earned one run, Madrigal earned a hit and one RBI, and Vigil collected a run. Kanon Childs and Logan Bennett had a hit in the loss.
Williams got the start on the mound going 0.1 innings giving up a pair of hits and four runs, two earned. Willson came in going 4.2 giving up seven hits, with three runs, two earned. Xander Pappas went one inning surrendering four hits and five runs, three earned and Kanyon Grant had four hits, and four earned runs.
Carbon will get back on the field Wednesday when they welcome the Uintah Utes to town.
Gametime is set for 3:00 p.m..