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Curve release 2024 schedule

The Altoona Curve announced home game times and fireworks dates for the 2024 season on Monday. Opening day at PNG Field is slated for Tuesday, April 9, when the Curve host the Harrisburg Senators. The 2024 season will once again feature 6 p.m. start times for many of the team’s home games with 19 post-game fireworks shows slated throughout the 69-game home schedule. Altoona is again slated to play 138 games in the Eastern League against their five divisional opponents and four opponents in the Northeast Division: Portland Sea Dogs (Boston Red Sox), Hartford Yard Goats (Colorado ...

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Greenberg is new Tigers GM DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers hired Jeff Greenberg to be their general manager on Thursday, adding a former Chicago Cubs and Blackhawks executive to work with team president of baseball operations Scott Harris. “I’m thrilled to add an executive of Jeff’s quality to our baseball operations leadership team,” said Harris, who was hired a year ago after being the San Francisco Giants’ general manager for three years. Detroit is tied with the Los Angeles Angels for the longest active postseason drought that dates to 2014. The Tigers are headed ...

Skenes highlights eventful season

The Altoona Curve ended the 2023 season with a 4-3 win over the Akron Rubber Ducks Sunday to put the final touches on a 67-68 season. While the Curve failed to make the postseason, they ended the season having won nine of their final 11 games. It was a season filled with many highs and lows, symbolized by the Skyliner just beyond the right field at PNG Field. It was bookended by two No. 1 overall draft picks suiting up in Altoona uniforms in Henry Davis (2021) and Paul Skenes (2023). The 25th anniversary also featured Yinzers, pizzas and pierogies, and much more. Skenes ...

Curve finish 2023 season on high note

From Mirror reports AKRON, Ohio — With the game tied in the top of the 10th inning, Tsung-Che Cheng scored on a passed ball to give Altoona its final run of the 2023 season and fuel a 4-3 victory for the Curve over the Akron RubberDucks at Canal Park on Sunday night. Altoona held a 3-1 lead with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning when Tahnaj Thomas walked Milan Tolentino before allowing a single to Micael Ramirez and a game-tying two-run double to Joe Naranjo. Cameron Junker entered for the Curve to get the final out of the eighth before tossing a scoreless ninth inning to ...

Cruz leads strong ’pen effort

AKRON, OH — Omar Cruz struck out a season-high eight batters in 3-plus innings of relief for Altoona on Friday night as the Curve scored four unearned runs in the eighth inning to defeat the RubberDucks, 4-0, at Canal Park. It was the 10th shutout victory for Altoona this season. Cruz, who entered the contest in the fourth inning, tossed three perfect innings to begin his outing, including a stretch where he struck out five consecutive batters. He allowed a lead-off double in the bottom of the seventh with the game tied 0-0 before striking out two of the next three batters he ...

Seven-game winning streak over for Curve

From Mirror reports AKRON, OH — Akron picked up its first win of the series on Thursday night with a 7-1 win over the Curve in Eastern League baseball action at Canal Park. Altoona’s season-long seven game win streak came to an end. Nick Dombkowski started the day on the mound and cruised into the fifth inning where he allowed a double and a pair of walks to begin the inning before handing the ball off to Jack Carey. Carey, making his Double-A debut, allowed the first three batters he faced to reach allowing the Ducks to plate six runs in the inning. Dombkowski allowed ...