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Altoona pulled out a back-and-forth victory over Harrisburg, 13-12, in 10 innings in front of 5,188 fans at Peoples Natural Gas Field on Saturday night.
The Curve earned their fourth straight win over the Senators.
Altoona held a 7-2 lead after three innings, just the third time since June 1 that the Curve held a five-run lead in a game.
Harrisburg rallied for five runs across the fourth, fifth and sixth innings to draw even at 7-7 before the Curve re-took the lead in the bottom of the sixth. Charles McAdoo's run-scoring double plated Yoyner Fajardo to take an 8-7 lead that stretched to 10-7 in the seventh after the Curve plated a run on Jackson Glenn's sacrifice fly and a wild pitch.
Harrisburg scored five times in the top of the ninth inning to take a 12-10 lead before the Curve rallied again to draw even in the bottom of the ninth. With two outs, Harrisburg's Carlos Romero threw a wild pitch that scored Tres Gonzalez, and when catcher Israel Pineda threw to third base to try to catch Jase Bowen, his throw trickled away from third baseman Paul Witt and allowed Bowen to scamper home as the tying run.
Jack Carey tossed a scoreless 10th inning to set up a walk-off win for the Curve. After Fajardo bunted his way aboard, Harrisburg intentionally walked McAdoo to load the bases for Abrahan Gutierrez. Harrisburg brought right fielder Trey Harris into be a fifth infielder and Gutierrez reached on an infield single to drive in the game-winning run.
Altoona scored a season-high 13 runs and picked up 15 hits. Dustin Peterson smacked a three-run homer as part of a three-hit day.