Facing an 0-for-4 day, Brae Dilley salivated in the on-deck circle.

The senior first baseman and team captain hadn’t given the baseball a good ride all afternoon long, but once the opponent gave him an inch, the Miner took a mile.

With the bases loaded and the score knotted up 4-4 in the bottom of the eighth inning Monday afternoon, Dilley squared up a fastball and delivered a single, giving the Park City High School baseball team its third straight Region 10 victory over the visiting Judge Memorial Bulldogs in walk-off fashion.

The win, which improved Park City’s record to 11-5, was as dramatic — and controversial — as they come.

Heading into the top of the sixth inning, the Miners held a 3-1 lead over the Bulldogs. But Judge would not go quietly as it rallied for three two-out runs to take a 4-3 advantage.

The score remained the same heading into the bottom of the seventh inning — and that’s when the fireworks started.

An infield single by Trevino was followed by the first of several controversial calls that left the Judge Memorial fan base up in arms. Dilley smacked a grounder toward the second baseman. The Bulldog tagged pinch runner Tim Leary and then fired to first base for an apparent double play.

But the home-plate umpire ruled that the Judge first baseman’s foot had come off the bag.

The next play, senior Conner Lagnese had an identical grounder to the second baseman, and, once again, the ump was hounded with boos after he ruled Lagnese safe.

In stepped left fielder Nate Stanley, who calmly tied the game 4-4 with a base hit to center field.

“We got a couple calls there,” Lagnese said later with a slight smirk. “We just took what we could get.”

The Miners were unable to score again on a bases-loaded situation later in the seventh, and the game went into extra innings where Trevino, who was starting on the mound for the first time since throwing a perfect game at Union, began to reassert himself. The right-hander got Park City out of the top of the eighth inning in only a few minutes.

In all, Trevino pitched eight innings, allowed seven hits, walked one and had 11 strikeouts.

“You can’t say enough about Trevino,” said Park City head coach Lou Green. “He got knocked around a little bit, and he took it personal. He came out and got after it.

“The thing you love about Mark is the approach never changes. He may miss sometimes, but his approach never changes.”

In the bottom of the eighth inning, freshman catcher Chandler Barkdull led off with an opposite field single. Junior center fielder Cole Tan followed with a slap grounder toward the third base line. An errant throw led to a collision between Tan and the Judge first baseman and Tan was ruled safe. Trevino was intentionally walked to load the bases and the rest is history as Dilley punched another one into the win column.

“I was so excited that they walked Mark,” Dilley said. “I was just itching to redeem myself. (The pitcher) just gave me one I could handle, and I hit it.”

“He’s a really, really good hitter,” Green said of Dilley. “Just like everyone else, he can kind of get into a slump. He’s kind of been in a mini-slump lately, and I told him there’s not a better time in the world to come out. He hit that ball on the screws. That was a missile.”

While the score will read 5-4 extra-innings win for the Miners, the story those in attendance will tell will be that of high emotion, coaches barking at one another, and fans berating umpires from just a few feet away.

“Our goal this year has been to play seven innings strong, keep our heads in the game and that’s we did,” Dilley said. “We battled the whole eight innings.”

Green said he was delighted with the way his players responded to such intensity between the two sides.

“We kept our composure,” he said. “You could really see (Judge) throwing gloves, throwing bats, yelling at the umpire; I was proud of our guys for not getting wrapped up in that. We continued to cheer on our teammates.

“I told them, ‘You win with class, you lose with class.'”

The Miners won with class and a little bit of luck Monday afternoon at home, and once Dilley’s single up the middle dropped in, the senior sprinted around the diamond as his teammates, frolicking in their latest triumph, tried to catch him.

“It was a rivalry before, and if it had died at all, it’s back now,” Green said of the Park City-Judge past. “Hell of a win for us.”

“I tell them every day, ‘Thank God you’re out here.’ We’ll have to thank a little bit extra after this one.”