By Jarrod Prugar For the Mirror One of the beautiful parts of minor league baseball is that each player has a vastly different journey that they have gone on to get to where they are currently at. For Altoona pitcher Drake Fellows, that journey came full circle as he and Pittsburgh ...
By Jarrod Prugar For the Mirror Thomas Harrington tossed seven strong innings en route to a 5-1 win over the Bowie Baysox at PNG Field Wednesday night in front of 3,390 fans. Harrington dazzled all who were in attendance, including his family and a friend, current Pirates pitcher Jared ...
By Jarrod Prugar For the Mirror Six pitchers combined for a shutout to help Altoona to a 4-0 win over the Bowie Baysox in front of 5,041 fans at PNG Field Tuesday night. Altoona starter Bubba Chandler tossed the first two innings, needing only 19 pitches to dispatch six Baysox hitters in a row. Chandler struck out two and did not allow a hit. Fret not, the early exit was by design because on Thursday, Chandler will depart for Texas to participate in Major League Baseball’s All-Star Futures game at Globe Life Field. Knowing he was only throwing a few innings allowed him ...
Pirates closer David Bednar and reliever Ryan Borucki both saw action in Altoona with the Curve as part of their respective rehab assignments Tuesday night. Bednar is beginning game-action in his recovery from a strained left oblique while Borucki is putting the finishing touches on his assignment in his return from left triceps inflammation. “Coming down on a rehab assignment, you just want to get back as soon as you can and today felt good so it was definitely a step in the right direction,” Bednar said following his inning of action. The next step for Bednar is yet to be ...
Altoona pulled out a back-and-forth victory over Harrisburg, 13-12, in 10 innings in front of 5,188 fans at Peoples Natural Gas Field on Saturday night. The Curve earned their fourth straight win over the Senators. Altoona held a 7-2 lead after three innings, just the third time since June 1 that the Curve held a five-run lead in a game. Harrisburg rallied for five runs across the fourth, fifth and sixth innings to draw even at 7-7 before the Curve re-took the lead in the bottom of the sixth. Charles McAdoo’s run-scoring double plated Yoyner Fajardo to take an 8-7 lead that ...
When the Harrisburg Senators’ Cortland Lawson steps on the field at PNG Field, he does so to cheers unbeknownst to nearly all Curve opponents. That’s because those cheers come from the dozens of family members he has at the ballpark cheering on him. Lawson’s mother, Janice (Kline) ...
