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RICHMOND, Va. -- With the game tied 4-4 in the top of the ninth inning, Curve catcher Dylan Shockley dropped an RBI single into shallow right field before Liover Peguero doubled him home, as Altoona came from behind to defeat the Richmond Flying Squirrels, 6-4, on Tuesday night at The Diamond.
The win, the sixth in a row for the Curve, moved them into a tie for first place in the Southwest Division at 28-22 with 18 games to play in the first half of the season. It was the 13th come from behind win of the season for Altoona.
The Curve fell into an early 3-0 hole. Richmond scored all of them against Altoona starter Kyle Nicolas. Vaun Brown drew a lead-off walk in the first and scored on a Marco Luciano double. Luciano scored on an Andy Thomas sacrifice fly.
Richmond added an RBI single in the third from Hayden Cantrelle. Nicolas allowed five hits on two walks and three strikeouts in three innings.
Travis MacGregor followed Nicolas in relief and threw three perfect innings, facing the minimum with a season-high-matching five strikeouts.
The Curve began the comeback in the sixth. They touched up reliever Carson Seymour for four runs on seven hits in four innings.
Altoona opened the sixth with back-to-back singles from Peguero and Matt Fraizer before Matt Gorski knocked a two-run triple, his first of the season to make it a 3-2 game. Mason Martin then drew his second walk of the game before Gorski scored on a double play ball to tie the game.
Richmond reclaimed the lead in the seventh on an Andy Thomas RBI single off Cameron Junker.
Altoona got a run back in the eighth to tie it at 4-4. Gorski doubled and used Richmond's miscues in the field to wind up scoring without the use of a hit.
In the ninth, Shockley and Peguero provided their big hits for the win. Tyler Samaniego tossed a scoreless eighth inning and Oliver Garcia worked a one-two-three ninth with a strikeout to end the game and earn his third save of the season.
With his pair of walks, Martin extended his on-base streak to a season-high 15 games, matching Henry Davis for the longest streak of the season for a Curve batter. Peguero recorded his team-leading 16th multi-hit game in the win, while Fraizer, Gorski, Alvarez, and Drew Maggi all had two-hit efforts. Abrahan Gutierrez went 0-for-3 with an RBI and a walk in his Double-A debut.