The Altoona Cirve battled the Richmond Flying Squirrels into the 11th inning, but dropped an 18-6 decision on Thursday afternoon at Peoples Natural Gas Field in Eastern League baseball action.

Altoona held a 4-2 lead after seven innings but couldn’t close out the victory despite scoring the game-tying run in both the ninth and 10th innings. Richmond scored 12 runs in the 11th inning for the win.

Altoona picked up 13 hits and drew 13 walks, but, despite batting 7-for-24 with runners in scoring position, they left 21 runners stranded; the most in an Eastern League game since May 1, 2015.

Five Curve batters notched multi-hit games as Callan Moss, Titus Dumitru, Jesus Castillo, Will Taylor and Keiner Delgado all had two-hit days. Delgado drove in three runs and was on base four times. Taylor walked three times for the first time this season. All nine starters for the Curve reached base safely.

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Curve's Titus Dumitru tries to convince home plate umpire Jamal Allen that he was hit by a pitch in the third inning.

Righty Peyton Stumbo made his fourth start of the season and tossed 4• innings with four strikeouts. He yielded four hits on two runs with just one of them earned via a leadoff homer to Richmond’s Scott Bandura to begin the game. Po-Yu Chen made his first appearance out of the bullpen this season and tossed four innings. He allowed three runs including a game-tying, two-run, two-out double in the eighth that knotted Altoona and Richmond, 4-4.

Richmond took a 5-4 lead in the ninth with a pair of base hits before Delgado drove in Taylor in the bottom of the ninth to send the game to extras. Both teams plated a run in the 10th and sent Altoona to its longest game of the season. The Flying Squirrels scored 12 times in the top of the 11th and took an 18-6 lead despite recording only six hits. They took advantage of three Curve errors in the inning. The 12 runs allowed by Altoona were the most runs allowed in a single inning in franchise history.

Up next

Altoona and Richmond will play two seven-inning games tonight with the first of the pair beginning at 5 p.m.

The second game will begin 30 minutes after the conclusion of game one. The Curve will send southpaw Dominic Perachi to the mound against righty Trystan Vrieling for Richmond. Game two’s starter for Altoona has yet to be determined as it will face Flying Squirrels’ righty Darien Smith.

Roster moves

Outfielder P.J.Hilson was called up to Indianapolis from Altoona. Outfielder Lonnie White Jr. was called up from Greensboro to replace Hilson.