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Big hits delivered by Curve

ERIE — Matt Gorski and Carter Bins each hit home runs, while Joe Perez belted a three-run double to help the Altoona Curve outlast Erie on Tuesday night, 7-5, at UPMC Park. It was a scoreless game entering the fifth inning when Altoona loaded the bases with one out against Erie starter Adam Wolf. Perez then cleared the bases with his third double in 14 games. The Curve expanded their lead with a pair of two-out home runs in the seventh inning. Gorski knocked his 17th of the season on an opposite-field shot off Michael Bienlien to make it a 4-1 game. Perez then drew a walk before ...

Sveum’s Curve memories are nothing but positive

By Jarrod Prugar For the Mirror Minor league baseball isn’t just designed for the players, it also serves as development for the coaches, too. Former Altoona Curve manager Dale Sveum embodies that development having gone from Double-A Altoona to Boston after the 2003 season, but his time at the helm of the Curve helped shape what was to come. “My managing job in Altoona was a lot of good things,” Sveum said. “Obviously, It’s a great stadium and in my second season, they changed owners which really changed the franchise around and made things a lot better and brought a ...

Top prospect Skenes has ‘bad outing’ in Double-A debut

All eyes were on Altoona Saturday as the Curve took down the Akron RubberDucks with a walk-off 9-8 win in front of a record-setting crowd of 10,164 people at PNG Field. Fans from far and wide packed the park to see the first overall pick of the 2023 Draft, RHP Paul Skenes make his ...

Community sets attendance record on special night

Excitement filled PNG Field well before the gates opened and continued throughout an exhilarating game put on by Altoona and Akron in front of a record crowd of 10,164 people. “Thank you to everyone in Altoona and Central Pennsylvania for being a part of the all-time single game attendance record with Saturday’s game,” Altoona general manager Nate Bowen said. The crowd was lined up hours before the gates opened at 4:30 and stayed well beyond Skenes’ debut that lasted only two-thirds of an inning and those that stayed were rewarded with a walk-off single by Carter ...

Structure important when Skenes takes the ball

By Jarrod Prugar For the Mirror With a background heavily rooted in the military, it should come as no surprise that Paul Skenes loves structure. It’s what drove him to the Air Force Academy and has been a big pillar in his makeup both on and off the field. That being said, it’s been an adjustment for Skenes over the past two offseasons as he adjusted to far less structure on and off the field which has helped him blossom into the player and person he is today “It’s just the nature of who I am. I really enjoy having that structure,” Skenes said. “Having it imposed on ...

Ducks score late to record come-from-behind win

From Mirror reports Joe Perez and Matt Gorski each homered for Altoona Friday night, but Akron responded with three late runs to defeat the Curve, 5-4, at PNG Field. Altoona jumped out to a 2-0 lead after Jackson Glenn tripled to open the bottom of the first inning and scored on a Gorski sacrifice fly. Perez later hit his solo home run off the starter Ross Carver in the fourth inning, his fifth home run with the Curve to make it 2-0. Akron responded in the fifth with a two-run home run by Joe Naranjo off Curve starter Anthony Solometo. It was the only runs allowed by Altoona’s ...