Pittsburgh Pirates prospect Murf Gray is being promoted to Altoona and will be joining the team ahead of their series in Reading after the All-Star break. Sources confirmed to the Mirror on Tuesday that the Fresno State product will be jumping another level this season having already ...
The Curve fell 5-3 to Richmond in the series and pre-break finale Sunday afternoon before 3,845 fans at Peoples Natural Gas Field to drop their second-half record to 7-11. Richmond scored three times off starter Connor Oliver, who made his second start of the series, and spun two innings. He allowed three earned runs on four hits, including a two-run homer from Richmond’s Jean Carlos Sio. Altoona stole four bases in the game, two after a first-inning single from Keiner Delgado, who scored on a sacrifice fly from Derek Berg. The Curve offense was held quiet by starter Trystan ...
It’s often said that Minor League Baseball is about development far more than winning. But standing outside the Altoona Curve’s locker room following Friday’s 5-4 win over Richmond, that seemed more like the opinion of someone not on a baseball diamond than anyone actually ...
One of the biggest parts of Minor League Baseball involves seizing opportunities when they come up. That’s exactly what Derek Berg has been doing the last month-plus. Picked in the 10th round of the 2024 draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates, Berg is getting his chance to catch for the ...
There is plenty of optimism in the Altoona Curve clubhouse as the team feels it has what it takes to make a run in the second half of the Eastern League season. On Wednesday night, in the second game of the series against Richmond, the Curve took an early lead, allowed the Flying Squirrels to ...
The Altoona Curve played Tuesday’s game against Richmond, a 3-2 Flying Squirrels win, at Peoples Natural Gas Field with catcher Omar Alfonzo on their minds. Alfonzo was placed on the temporarily inactive list on June 25 a day after devastating earthquakes in Venezuela after he learned his ...
