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Curve need strong week for run at playoffs

Next stop Tonight: Altoona at Bowie, 6:35 p.m. Pitchers: Curve TBD vs. BaySox RHP Brenan Hanifee Record: 25-20 Radio: WRTA-AM 1240 & 98.5-FM From Mirror reports BOWIE, Md. — The Curve pretty much got pounded their last visit here, but they opened this series on a much better note Tuesday night, looking to set a good tone for the week. Altoona scored three runs in the first inning, built a comfortable lead and then held on for a 7-5 victory over Bowie at Prince Georges Stadium. If the Curve are to have any hope of making a push for a possible playoff berth, they need to ...

Rain cools off Curve

There’s a good time for a rainout and a bad time for a rainout, and Sunday was the latter for the Curve, both on and off the field. Altoona has won four games in a row and was looking to make it five straight against a bad Harrisburg team. But instead, rain forced the game to be canceled at Peoples Natural Gas Field, and it will not be made up since the teams don’t play again this season. Off the field, the Sunday night contest would have drawn a big crowd, especially with postgame fireworks. The Curve ran their winning streak to four Saturday night with a 7-4 victory over ...

Curve rally from 4-0 hole

Altoona racked up 12 hits and Blake Sabol played the hero yet again, as the Curve came back to defeat the Harrisburg Senators, 6-5, in front of a crowd of 4,275. The Senators tagged Curve starter Aaron Shortridge in a filibuster-length first inning, pushing across four runs. Center fielder Matt Fraizer prevented even more damage by throwing out Harrisburg left fielder Yasel Antuna, who tried to stretch his single into a double. “I actually made a note of that play,” Curve manager Kieran Mattison said. “That really helped us put out a fire early. Those plays end up mattering and ...

Nunez walk-off homer lifts Curve

In a seesaw game that featured five lead changes, Malcom Nunez delivered a walk-off home run in the ninth to cap Altoona’s 8-5 win over the Harrisburg Senators. Jared Triolo and Matt Fraizer set the tone early for Altoona, launching solo home runs in the first and second innings, respectively, off Harrisburg starter Jake Irvin. Curve starter Cristofer Melendez tossed two scoreless innings before giving way to Carmen Mlodzinski, who received a rude welcome in the third. Robert Hassell, the centerpiece of the Nationals’ Juan Soto trade, drove in Harrisburg’s first run with a ...

Curve finish night with split

From Mirror reports Nick Gonzales recorded his first four-hit game of the season, and helped with the sixth walk-off win for the Curve on the year, as Altoona beat Harrisburg, 3-2, in the 10th inning of the second game of the day Wednesday night. Altoona fell in 11 innings, 7-4, in the first game at PNG Field. It was the completion of Tuesday’s suspended game which was called, tied at 2-2, after seven innings. In the 7-4 loss, the Curve jumped out to a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the first inning on a Liover Peguero bases-loaded single that scored two runs. Harrisburg, which scored ...

Rain forces Curve to play twice today

Next stop Today: Game 1: Harrisburg at Altoona, 4:30 p.m. (Completion of suspended game); Game 2: Harrisburg at Altoona Game 2 starters: Senators TBD vs. Curve RHP Quinn Priester Record: 20-19 Radio: WRTA-AM 1240 & 98.5-FM The Altoona Curve and Harrisburg Senators will complete Tuesday’s suspended game this afternoon at 4:30, after the game was rained out in the top of the seventh inning with the score knotted, 2-2. Tonight’s regularly-scheduled game will follow the completion of the suspended game. The Curve (20-19) were opening a six-game home series with the ...