MANCHESTER, NH — The New Hampshire Fisher Cats sent 10 men to the plate and scored five times in the second inning on the way to a 14-3 win over the Curve Wednesday night at Delta Dental Stadium.

Righty Landon Tomkins made his first start as a professional to start a bullpen day for the Curve and suffered the loss. After allowing a run on two hits, a walk and a hit batsman in the first, New Hampshire used four hits, an error, a walk and a hit batsman to score five times in the second and take a 6-0 advantage.

Tomkins and Jake Shirk covered the first four innings of the game on the mound.

Altoona (22-31) got back into the game with a pair of runs in the top of the fifth. After Will Taylor bunted his way aboard to start the frame, Javier Rivas socked a double to left to put men on second and third. Run-scoring groundouts from Keiner Delgado and Duce Gourson brought the Curve to a 6-2 deficit.

Derek Berg extended his season-long hit streak to 11 games with a double to leadoff the sixth inning. Berg is batting .356 during the longest hit streak of the season for a Curve hitter. He’s also reached base safely in 16 consecutive games.

In the eighth inning, Omar Alfonzo brought a run home when he beat out a potential inning-ending double play. Altoona loaded the bases with two outs, trailing 6-3, but Delgado struck out with the bases loaded to end the threat.

New Hampshire, which moved into first in the Northeast Division at 27-23, put the game away with eight runs in its eighth-inning at-bat. The Fisher Cats hit three homers in the inning, tagging Alessandro Ercolani for six runs, and sent 10 batters to the plate for the second time in the same game.