The Altoona Curve scored 4 runs in the eighth inning to take down the Richmond Flying Squirrels, 7-2, and earn a sequence cut up in entrance of 4,027 followers Sunday afternoon at PNG Field.
Richmond scored two runs in the primary inning, because of a single by heart fielder Bo Davidson that scored proper fielder Jonah Cox and first baseman Sabin Ceballos, who got here round on a throwing error by Curve proper fielder Jesus Castillo.
From there, it was all Altoona, who dominated the Flying Squirrels on the mound and on the plate.
The pitching workers yielded solely three hits over the remaining eight innings of play led by starter Connor Wietgrefe, who went 4 innings and allowed 4 hits and two runs.
Alessandro Ercolani, contemporary off the Injured List, threw a shutout inning, whereas Jarod Bayless and Enmanual Chapman every threw two shutout innings to slam the door on the Flying Squirrels.
“Wietgrefe, after the first inning, he was great,” Curve supervisor Andy Fox stated. “He was on a short outing for him, but the bullpen stepped up big. We were kind of a little limited in the bullpen, but Bayless and Chapman stepped up huge.”
Offensively, shortstop Jack Brannigan received the Curve on the board in the primary inning with a solo dwelling run to make it 2-1. Altoona took the lead on a two-run dwelling run by second baseman Keiner Delgado and by no means appeared again.
“The big part was actually us answering back, being able to cut the lead in half thanks to Brannigan,” Fox stated.
The Curve added 4 runs of insurance coverage in the eighth inning with a trio of singles to start out the inning, completed off by an RBI single by first baseman Callan Moss to maneuver the sport to 4-2.
Back-to-back walks labored in Altoona’s favor as Omar Alfonso scored on Will Taylor’s stroll to make it a 5-2 recreation.
Derek Berg knocked in a run to make it 6-2 on a line-drive single earlier than Lonnie White Jr. grounded right into a double play to attain Duce Gourson and spherical out the scoring for the Curve.
The win marked the second sequence in a row the place Altoona has received three video games and comes after the Curve began the season on an 0-12 skid.
Solo Jack(s)
With Brannigan’s first-inning dwelling run, it marked the seventeenth solo dwelling run of the season for the Curve.
Our bats have gotten higher, however not having the ability to get the massive hit is type of been our factor currently,” Fox stated. “Even the whole series we had traffic and couldn’t cash in and but for me, I’ll take 17 solos over none.”
It marked Brannigan’s third dwelling run of the season, all of which got here in this sequence.
Puttin’ on the hits
The offenses for each groups have been placed on show all through the sequence. Altoona notched 51 hits in six video games whereas Richmond added 64 of its personal.
“Being committed to their approach and trust in their processes and their work and things like that, that’s been the biggest part,” Fox stated. “We’re actually starting to see little incremental improvements in all of them. And yeah, guys are scuffling, but for the most part, collectively as a group, we’ve had a really good and consistent approach every day.”
The Flying Squirrels accrued 51 runs towards the Curve whereas they scored 30 runs themselves in the sequence cut up.
The Curve misplaced Saturday’s recreation, 7-2.
UP NEXT
The Curve head to Chesapeake to tackle the Baysox for a six-game sequence on Tuesday.