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Curve drop another to Ducks

Akron’s offense came to life with 13 hits and defeated the Curve, 7-2, in front of 6,897 fans at Peoples Natural Gas Field on Wednesday morning. Matt Gorski continued his hot stretch at the plate for Altoona with his fifth home run and second of the series with the RubberDucks. Gorski is sporting an eight-game hitting streak after his 1-for-3 day. His second home run in as many games came in the bottom of the fourth inning, a solo shot off Akron starter Tanner Burns. Gorski has three home runs to go with a double and six RBIs in the current hitting streak for the Curve. Mason ...

Davis right where he needs to be … for now

Henry Davis is raking. Every time the ball leaves Davis’ bat, it leaves in a hurry. That much was proven to be very true Tuesday night when both of Davis’ homers left the bat at 109 and 111 mph, respectively. Yeah, that’s good. His leading all Eastern League players with a 1.175 OPS (on-base plus slugging) is also very good. So too is being fourth among all Minor League Baseball players in OPS and sixth in slugging percentage at .711. He’s tallied eight homers and 17 RBIs through 21 games for Altoona this season. Those are also pretty good. So why isn’t he in Triple-A ...

Bullpen implodes in 11th

https://youtu.be/xMCCSBljXHM By Jarrod Prugar The Associated Press Home runs by Henry Davis and Matt Gorski weren’t enough to overcome a seven-run 11th inning by Akron as the Altoona Curve lost 12-6 Tuesday night in front of 2,348 fans. “Generally speaking, it was a good game, a 5-5 game until the 11th,” Altoona manager Callix Crabbe said. “The score is not indicative of what the game looked like, but real close.” Of the nine hits the Curve offense recorded, six of those went for extra bases. Gorski got in on the slugfest with a double and home run while Fabricio Macias ...

Curve fall in series’ last game

From Mirror reports RICHMOND, Va. — Altoona’s pitching staff struck out 12 batters on Sunday afternoon at The Diamond, but the Curve offense was kept quiet as Richmond defeated the Curve, 4-1, to split the series. The one run in the contest for Altoona came with two outs in the fourth inning. Domingo Leyba opened the inning with a double and Matt Gorski singled to move him to third. Leyba was then thrown out attempting to tag up on a flyout to right fielder Luis Matos from Mason Martin, but Drew Maggi came through for the Curve with a single up the middle to score Gorski and ...

Curve bats silent in Richmond loss

From Mirror reports RICHMOND, Va. — Aaron Shortridge completed five innings for the fourth time this season but allowed three runs to the Flying Squirrels, who held Altoona’s offense to just three hits in a 3-1 loss on Friday night at The Diamond. Shortridge allowed two runs in the first inning on a pair of hits. Luis Matos hit a one-out single and scored on a Riley Mahan RBI double. Marco Luciano, who drew a walk, scored on a groundout from Carter Aldrete to make it 2-0. Mahan added a third run to Shortridge’s line in the bottom of the third on a sacrifice fly to score ...

One-time Giants prospect helps Curve pick up the victory

From Mirror reports RICHMOND, Va. — Jacob Gonzalez launched the first pitch of his fourth-inning at-bat over the left field wall for a two-run home run, that propelled Altoona ahead for good as the Curve defeated the Flying Squirrels, 6-3, on Thursday night at the Diamond. The former Giants farmhand went 1-for-3 with a walk and his second home run of the season in the win for the Curve. His two-run shot off Richmond starter Mason Black scored Matt Gorski, who reached on a one-out single in the prior at-bat. He later scored the sixth run of the game for the Curve in the sixth ...