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The Altoona Curve scored 10 unanswered runs to complete a comeback win, 10-3, over the Richmond Flying Squirrels in front of 4,947 fans at Peoples Natural Gas Field on Friday night.
Trailing 3-0 in the sixth, the Curve scored their first two runs of the night on a double from Termarr Johnson who later scored on a passed ball. Altoona then sent 11 hitters to the plate in the seventh inning, netting six runs, to take a commanding lead.
Tsung-Che Cheng tied the game with a double and later scored the go-ahead run on a balk by Squirrels reliever Seth Corry. The Curve put the game away with RBI singles from Geovanny Planchart, Nick Cimillo and Kervin Pichardo.
Altoona added two more in the eighth inning when Johnson and rehabbing Pirates catcher Endy Rodriguez picked up RBI singles to make it a 10-3 game.
Rodriguez went 1-for-5 in his fourth game of his rehab assignment as the team's designated hitter.
On the mound, Anthony Solometo scattered nine hits and allowed just two runs, one earned, over five innings. Solometo struck out four and allowed just one walk as he finished five innings for just the third time this season in 20 starts.
Brad Case, pitching on his 28th birthday, earned the win with two innings of relief. Jaden Woods wrapped up the victory with two scoreless frames, earning three strikeouts and surrendering just one walk.
Altoona's 10 runs were the most for them since Aug. 9 at Portland as every player in the starting lineup earned a hit and six different players drove in a run. Johnson, Sammy Siani, Pichardo and Jase Bowen each had multi-hit games in the win.
Altoona continues its final series of the season with the Flying Squirrels on Saturday night at PNG Field. Southpaw Nick Dombkowski is slated to start the game for Altoona, with righty Will Jensen slated to start for the Flying Squirrels. The final game of the season on Sunday will start at 1 p.m.