By Jarrod Prugar For the Mirror PITTSBURGH — Baseball, much like life, tends to throw curveballs at unexpected moments. For rookie phenom Paul Skenes, his most recent curveball came while he was napping. “We had an 11 a.m. game and I had to throw a bullpen in the morning,” ...
From Mirror reports The Altoona Curve and Somerset Patriots were postponed due to rain on Friday night at Peoples Natural Gas Field. The game will be made up as a doubleheader on Saturday with a 2 p.m. first pitch in game one. The doubleheader will consist of two seven-inning games. The fireworks for Saturday’s game will be rescheduled for a future date this season. Those with tickets to Friday’s game will be able to exchange them for another home game this season of equal or lesser value, subject to availability. Tickets can be exchanged in person at the PNG Field Box Office, or ...
By Jarrod Prugar For the Mirror The phrase ‘built different’ is thrown around all too loosely throughout the sports world these days, but if there ever was a player who fit that definition it would be Paul Skenes. Skenes, the rookie phenom, will have his contract selected prior to this Saturday’s game and there is sure to be electricity throughout PNC Park and Pittsburgh as a whole with the Chicago Cubs in town. After all, just less than a year ago he was selected as the first overall pick of the 2023 MLB Draft. Now, he’ll be on the mound for the Pirates. With that ...
From Mirror reports Starter Po-Yu Chen tossed a season-long six innings with three strikeouts for the Altoona Curve on Tuesday afternoon, giving up just one run. It wasn’t enough. The Somerset Patriots put six runs up on Altoona’s bullpen across the seventh and eighth ...
The Altoona Curve notched a 3-0 win over the Somerset Patriots Wednesday night in front of 3,236 fans at PNG Field. It marked their first shutout of the season behind the stellar pitching of righty Braxton Ashcraft. “I thought he did a really good job of pitching to good spots with ...
From Mirror reports Sammy Siani knocked an RBI triple for his first Double-A hit, but it was the only bright spot generated by the Curve on Tuesday morning in an 8-1 defeat to the Somerset Patriots at Peoples Natural Gas Field. Somerset (13-14) slugged seven extra-base hits in the contest, the most allowed by the Curve this season. The Patriots had 10 hits in the win, with five doubles and a pair of two-run home runs from Agustin Ramirez and J.C. Escarra, both hit off Altoona starter Sean Sullivan. Sullivan allowed a lead-off double to Spencer Jones to open the game before Ramirez ...
