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Curve score 8 in 9th for win

MANCHESTER, NH — Trailing 3-2 entering the ninth inning, the Altoona Curve rallied for six runs in the top of the ninth to earn an 8-3 win over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats on Tuesday night.

In the six-run frame, the Curve sent 10 men to the plate to score the six runs, the most in an inning since May 24 against Erie.

Keiner Delgado tied the game with a double into the right-field corner and after a groundout for the first out of the inning, Lonnie White Jr. reached on a fielder’s choice and a throwing error that plated two runs. Derek Berg followed with an RBI single to tie the game, and after a Titus Dumitru double, the Curve added another run on a fielder’s choice hit by Callan Moss and another run on a wild pitch.

Moss and White Jr. each finished the game with two doubles while Delgado and Berg each added two hits of their own. Altoona had 10 hits and four walks in the win.

Cy Nielson earned the win with two scoreless innings of relief, tossing a scoreless eighth before coming back for a six-pitch ninth inning. Nielson is unscored upon in 14-of-17 outings this season.

Derek Berg doubled home Keiner Delgado in the top of the first to start the back-and-forth affair with the Fisher Cats. New Hampshire’s Jace Bohrofen and Sean Keys hit back-to-back solo homers off starter Emmanuel Chapman in the bottom of the first. Altoona drew even at 2-2 in the third on Lonnie White Jr.’s double to the centerfield wall.

The game stayed tied at 2-2 into the late innings as lefty Connor Wietgrefe matched his career-high with seven strikeouts in relief. Across five innings, he allowed just one run on four hits and a pair of walks.

New Hampshire’s Nick Goodwin knocked a go-ahead single in the seventh inning against Wietgrefe to make it a 3-2 game. Wietgrefe tossed 83 pitches and walked just two batters. He’s allowed two runs or fewer in 7-of-12 outings this season.

Game notes

Altoona Curve right-handed pitcher Noah Murdock was called up to Triple-A Indianapolis on Tuesday. … With the win, Altoona is now 22-30 while New Hampshire, a farm team of the Toronto Blue Jays, dropped to 26-23.

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