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Curve set game times

The Altoona Curve announced home game times and fireworks dates for the 2025 season on Wednesday. Game times are subject to change. The 2025 season will again feature 6 p.m. start times for many of the team’s home games with 19 postgame fireworks shows slated throughout the 69-game home schedule. Altoona is again slated to play 138 games in the Eastern League regular season and will face every team for the first time since 2019, hosting nine of 11 possible opponents at Peoples Natural Gas Field. Game times for nine fireworks shows during the summer have been pushed back to ...

Curve finish up season with victory

By Jarrod Prugar For the Mirror The Altoona Curve used back-to-back home runs in the fifth inning to propel them to a 5-1 against the Richmond Flying Squirrels in front of 4,330 fans at PNG Field Sunday afternoon. Jase Bowen and Eli Wilson hit back-to-back solo home runs in the fifth inning as part of a three-run inning. Wilson then doubled in the sixth which added to the scoring “I felt pretty good after that,” Altoona manager Robby Hammock said. “It was nice to see us take that lead there and add on ... there were some nice plays out there.” The team wrapped up ...

Curve offense explodes in victory over Squirrels

From Mirror reports The Altoona Curve scored 10 unanswered runs to complete a comeback win, 10-3, over the Richmond Flying Squirrels in front of 4,947 fans at Peoples Natural Gas Field on Friday night. Trailing 3-0 in the sixth, the Curve scored their first two runs of the night on a double from Termarr Johnson who later scored on a passed ball. Altoona then sent 11 hitters to the plate in the seventh inning, netting six runs, to take a commanding lead. Tsung-Che Cheng tied the game with a double and later scored the go-ahead run on a balk by Squirrels reliever Seth Corry. The ...

Rodriguez glad to be back playing

By Jarrod Prugar For the Mirror Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Endy Rodriguez was all smiles after the Altoona Curve’s 8-1 victory over the Richmond Flying Squirrels Thursday night in front of 3,814 fans at PNG Field. That’s as he deals with the ebbs and flows of his return to the field following offseason Tommy John surgery. “Shoot, Tuesday was his first time behind the dish since injury and he’s in a game,” Hammock said. “That’s tough to do. And he’s even said ‘I missed some balls and dropped a bunch of balls’ and all that stuff’s gonna go away the more ...

Curve victory all part of festive world with team’s mascots

By Jarrod Prugar For the Mirror There’s a saying around PNG Field expressed nightly throughout the Altoona Curve’s season, everybody loves Curve baseball. On Tuesday night, in front of 3,547 fans, Al Tuna and Altoona delivered with an 8-7 win over the Richmond Flying ...

Four errors costly for Curve in loss at home to Squirrels

By Jarrod Prugar For the Mirror The Altoona Curve’s 6-2 loss to the Richmond Flying Squirrels Tuesday night in front of 3,801 fans at PNG Field was a microcosm of the 2024 season as a whole. The team was unable to play complementary baseball and struggled at times, even with the ...