Altoona Curve

Curve falls flat at Yard Goats

Johnson records first multi-hit game at Double-A

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Termarr Johnson was 2-for-4 hitting to record his first multi-hit game at Double-A Friday night as Altoona fell to the Hartford Yard Goats at Dunkin' Park.

Anthony Solometo allowed six runs on six hits in one inning to take the loss for the Curve. After a scoreless first inning, Solometo allowed six hits and a walk without recording an out in the second inning. Jaycob Deese entered in relief and tossed three scoreless innings.

Blake Townsend fired three scoreless innings to follow Deese before J.C. Flowers tossed a scoreless eighth inning

for the Curve.

Nick Cimillo knocked an RBI single to score Johnson in the first inning to give the Curve an early lead, but Altoona stranded nine runners on base in the loss and could not bring another run across.

Altoona continues its six-game series with the

Double-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, the Hartford Yard Goats, on Saturday night at 6:10 p.m.