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Curve continue hot streak

Next stop Tonight: Altoona at Erie, 6:05 Pitchers: Curve TBD vs. SeaWolves RHP Brant Hunter Record: 31-26 From Mirror reports ERIE — The Curve are closing the season on a strong note, and while their playoff hopes may not be great, there are other goals to play for down the stretch. Altoona pounded Erie, 8-1, Tuesday night UPMC Park to open this week’s series with a victory after taking four of six last week against Akron. The Curve are still 4½ games back in the playoff chase with only 11 games to, and they’d have to beat out three teams in order to claim a spot. ...

Alvarez starts Curve’s 20-20 club

It’s amazing, really, that it took this long, since the Curve have had a whole bunch of outstanding players over the past 22 seasons. But it took until season No. 23 for the franchise to produce a 20-20 guy, and the milestone was finally achieved Sunday afternoon by a player that no one would have guessed when the season started. Andres Alvarez hit his 20th homer in the fifth inning, and made history in doing so since he already had reached 20 steals. Alvarez etched his name into the Curve history books forever with the feat, and helped the team beat Akron, 5-2, before 3,896 fans ...

MiLB union could come at a cost

By Cory Giger sports@altoonamirror.com We need to talk about the future of minor league baseball and future of the Altoona Curve, because we soon could enter an era of unprecedented uncertainty regarding both. I don’t want to sound like an alarmist here, but Curve fans need to be aware of what is happening right now in the minor leagues and the possible ways it could impact Altoona’s fantastic Double-A franchise. If you’ve been paying attention in recent days, you may be aware that the Major League Baseball Players Association is trying to unionize minor league players. ...

Curve fall to RubberDucks

Endy Rodriguez homered for the second game in a row, but Akron picked up eight runs on 10 hits to defeat Altoona, 8-4, on Friday night at PNG Field. Akron scored in each of the first four innings. Micah Pries hit an RBI-single in the first inning off Curve starter Kyle Nicolas. Julian Escobedo hit a sacrifice fly in the second. In the third, Nicolas walked four batters before Omar Cruz entered and walked a fifth to give Akron two more runs. Angel Martinez hit a sacrifice fly in the fourth off Cruz to make it a 5-1 game. Rodriguez’s eighth home run with Altoona came in the ...

Curve take advantage of errors to top RubberDucks at home

Endy Rodriguez hit two home runs and Nick Gonzales recorded three hits as the Curve took advantage of four Akron errors and defeated the RubberDucks, 13-7, on Thursday night at PNG Field. Altoona scored six runs in the bottom of the third inning off Thomas Ponticelli and five runs in the eighth off Aaron Pinto. Fabricio Macias opened the third with a double to left field and advanced to third on a fielding error by Micah Pries. Liover Peguero scored Macias in the next at-bat and reached first base on an error by Jose Tena at short. Gonzales followed with an RBI-double to center field ...

Hollidaysburg LL team one positive on tough Curve night

Next stop Tonight: Akron at Altoona, 6 p.m. Pitchers: Curve RHP Luis Ortiz vs. Ducks RHP Thomas Ponticelli Record: 27-25 By Cory Giger sports@altoonamirror.com There wasn’t much to cheer during the game for Curve fans Thursday night, but there was plenty to cheer before the game at Peoples Natural Gas Field. The Curve celebrated the Hollidaysburg team that recently competed in the Little League World Series, and a good time was had by all, including players on both the Curve and the Little League squad. “Thank you for representing our community and Pennsylvania so well. It ...