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BOWIE, Md. -- With Altoona trailing 3-2 in the ninth inning, Nick Cimillo knocked a game-tying home run for the Curve, before the Chesapeake Baysox walked it off in the 10th inning, 4-3, on Friday night at Prince George's Stadium.
It was Cimillo's fifth home run of the season, a solo shot off Baysox reliever Kyle Virbitsky. Virbitsky rallied back to get three straight outs in the ninth. He worked around a walk in the 10th inning to keep the Curve off the board.
Wilken Ramos worked the 10th for Altoona and faced just two batters. Noelberth Romero laid down a sacrifice bunt to advance the placed runner before Reed Trimble walked it off with an RBI single.
Alessandro Ercolani allowed three runs over five innings in the start for Altoona. It was the third time in 14 appearances that Ercolani has gone five innings this season. He surrendered a run in the second inning on back-to-back doubles by Silas Ardoin and Doug Hodo. Two runs crossed in the third on an infield single and a Termarr Johnson error.
Emmanuel Chapman spun two scoreless innings with three strikeouts in relief. Valentin Linarez struck out four over two no-hit innings. Altoona was held scoreless over the first five innings by Levi Wells but got on the board in the sixth.
Wyatt Hendrie doubled to lead off the frame against Robinson Martinez and took third on a wild pitch. After a walk to Johnson, Martinez committed an error on a pickoff attempt to first and allowed Hendrie to score. Johnson then scored on an RBI single from Mike Jarvis.