It goes without saying that the schedule for a professional baseball player is an unusual one. In the Eastern League, teams play 138 games in 165 days. There are an equal number of 69 games at home and on the road. But there are certain quirks around all of Minor League Baseball that you ...
Altoona and Erie’s Friday night game was postponed due to inclement weather. The teams will make the game up with a doubleheader, consisting of a pair of seven-inning games, on Saturday, beginning at 5 p.m. Fans holding tickets to Friday night’s game may exchange them for another game this season based on availability. Tickets must be exchanged in person at the box office.
The Altoona Curve plated four runs in a second-inning rally to boost the team to a series-opening victory over the Erie SeaWolves on Tuesday night, 4-2, at Peoples Natural Gas Field. The four-run second inning saw five stolen bases and three hits as Duce Gourson highlighted the frame with a ...
The Curve fell behind 7-0 before getting their bats going, but it was too late in a 10-6 loss to the Erie SeaWolves on Wednesday afternoon before 5,743 fans at Peoples Natural Gas Field. Curve right-handed Khristian Curtis started the game with three dominant innings, allowing just one hit ...
The Altoona Curve couldn’t hold off a late rally by the Harrisburg Senators en route to an 8-3 loss in front of 3,744 fans Sunday night at PNG Field. Harrisburg took a 4-3 lead in the eighth inning and added four more runs in the top of the ninth inning to thwart the Curve’s chances of winning. The Senators took a 2-0 lead off Pirates right-handed pitcher Jared Jones, who was in town for his second rehab start of the week. They then scored a run off Jarod Bayless to give them a 3-0 cushion. Altoona’s Lonnie White Jr. hit a two-run home run in the sixth inning to make it a ...
It isn’t uncommon for athletes in professional sports to be talented enough to play another game at a high level. One of the extreme cases came in 1992 when Deion Sanders played in an NFL and an MLB playoff game on the same day. Bo Jackson was also an all-star in both baseball and ...
