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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 ...

Alvarez sparks Curve ‘W’

AKRON — Andres Alvarez hit his eighth home run of the season in a six-run fifth inning on Wednesday night as the Curve defeated Akron, 7-5, to earn their seventh-straight win. Altoona scored the game’s first run on an RBI groundout by Jackson Glenn in the top of the third. After Akron drew even in the bottom of the third, Altoona broke the game open with the six-run frame against the Ducks bullpen. Alvarez started the rally with a solo homer before Altoona loaded the bases with a pair of walks a single from Glenn to set up Tsung-Che Cheng. Cheng reached on a hard ground ball ...

Curve win 6th straight

AKRON, Ohio — Carter Bins lifted a sacrifice fly to score Jackson Glenn in the eighth inning to break a tie game as Altoona won its sixth-straight game on Tuesday night, 3-2, over the Akron RubberDucks at Canal Park. Glenn opened the inning with a double. Tsung-Che Cheng moved him to third on a sacrifice bunt before Bins hit the sacrifice fly to right field. Working against rehabbing Guardians right-hander Shane Bieber, the Curve took advantage of a first inning error to plate the game’s first run. With two outs, Carter Bins was hit by a pitch and promptly stole second base. Matt ...

Curve attendance reaches 308,000

By Jarrod Prugar For the Mirror Carter Bins hit a walk-off book-rule double to help the Altoona Curve to a 5-4 win over the Harrisburg Senators in front of 4,651 fans at PNG Field Sunday afternoon. The large home crowd put an exclamation point on a season that featured a total attendance of 308,003 fans. That total marked the third time since 2008 the Curve had more than 300,000 in attendance. It also marked the largest attendance for Altoona since 2019 when the Curve hosted 308,464 fans over the course of the season. “What a nice way to end a season on a really fun ...

Impressive debut for Chandler

From Mirror reports Bubba Chandler brought a perfect game into the fifth inning and struck out eight in his Double-A debut, as the Altoona Curve cruised to a 6-0 win over the Harrisburg Senators on Friday night at Peoples Natural Gas Field. It was Altoona’s ninth shutout win of the season. Chandler retired 13 straight batters to begin his outing, electrifying the home crowd with fastballs in the mid-to-high 90’s. Harrisburg finally got a baserunner against him when catcher Israel Pineda lofted a single over the leap of shortstop Tsung-Che Cheng. Chandler came back with ...