Carson Tinney’s mammoth grand slam launches No. 4 Texas to 11-8 win over UTSA

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The Horns added three more runs in the third when Larson took advantage of a walk and a throwing error to produce an RBI groundout and Monsour hit his first collegiate home run, sitting on a high breaking ball and smashing it 434 feet for a two-run shot.

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The three-run frame came in response to UTSA’s biggest inning of the game when the Roadrunners scored six runs. As Texas starter Max Grubbs entered his third inning of work, he’d only allowed a solo home run, but Patt Hallmark’s team made Grubbs and redshirt junior left-hander Ethan Walker pay for leaving balls up in the zone.

After two one-out singles by the Roadrunners, a throwing error on Mendoza when he tripped fielding a grounder and then threw the ball away allowed the first run of the inning to score. Two more runs came in on a single by the UTSA catcher, ending the evening for Grubbs.

Walker got ahead against the first batter he faced before giving up a single and a first-pitch, three-run home run to pinch hitter Garrett Gruell.

But despite that big inning, the Roadrunners only scored one more run thanks to freshman right-hander Brody Walls, who set his career high with five strikeouts and tied his career high with 3.2 innings pitched, allowing one run on one hit with one walk and one hit by pitch. With a fastball that reached 96, Walls was able to keep UTSA’s hot-hitting lineup in check with his sharp-breaking, high-spin slider.

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So even though the Horns haven’t been able to find a fourth starter with the postseason looming, the outing by Walls was extremely promising in suggesting what he can provide Texas in the coming weeks.

And junior right-hander Thomas Burns bounced back from his poor outing in Saturday’s loss to Mississippi State by landing his off-speed pitches on the way to his fourth save thanks to a 1-2-3 inning that required just nine pitches.

Texas travels to Knoxville to face Tennessee this weekend.