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Tonight: Bowie at Altoona, 6 p.m.

Pitchers: Bowie RHP Peter Van Loon vs. Curve LHP Anthony Solometo

Radio: WRTA-FM 98.5

From Mirror reports

CURVE — The Curve opened up their latest homestand on Tuesday night with a 5-0 shutout loss to Bowie in front of 5,491 fans at Peoples Natural Gas Field.

Po-Yu Chen made his sixth appearance of the season against Bowie and was charged with the loss.

Bowie’s Jud Fabian slashed a two-run homer in the first, and then added a sacrifice fly in the second and an RBI double in the fourth to account for the first four runs on Chen’s line. Chen was touched up for five runs in total on six hits and walked three in his outing.

The Curve offense was held to just three hits in the first five innings by Bowie starter Alex Pham. He struck out six and earned his fifth win of the season.

Baysox pitchers Dan Hammer and Levi Stoudt tossed four scoreless innings and combined to throw nine walk-less innings.

Matt Fraizer, Abrahan Gutierrez and Tres Gonzalez each had two hits in the defeat. Altoona’s best chance for offense ended in strikeouts in the second and seventh inning. In the second, Gutierrez and Gonzalez stood in scoring position when Pham struck out Jackson Glenn to end the inning.

Working against Hammer in the seventh, the Curve picked up three straight hits to start the inning. However, Hammer induced a 1-2-3 double play ball, then struck out Glenn to end the frame.

In relief for Altoona, now 16-23, Justin Meis tossed 2• scoreless inning with three strikeouts. Brad Case stranded the bases loaded in the eighth after a hit batsman and two softly hit singles to begin the inning. Case got John Rhodes to pop out and then struck out Anthony Servideo and Enrique Bradfield Jr. to end the frame.

Game 2 in the series is tonight at 6.