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Curve pitching Kevin Walker makes a mound go to to Khristian Curtis within the third inning.
A two-run residence run by Titus Dumitru helped the Altoona Curve split a uncommon residence and away doubleheader with the Harrisburg Senators, profitable 2-0 in sport two after a 3-1 loss in sport one in entrance of two,334 followers Thursday night time at PNG Field.
Dumitru launched his residence run 394 ft to offer the Curve a 2-0 lead within the high of the seventh inning. It was the highest as the results of the sport being a Harrisburg residence sport courtesy of a postponed sport throughout Altoona’s most up-to-date journey to Harrisburg.
Both video games have been solely seven innings due to the Minor League rule.
“It was funny, just sort of have to remind the guys that, ‘hey, remember the second game, we’re the road team,’ and a lot of these guys never had that before,” Curve supervisor Andy Fox mentioned. “It was nice to get a nice bounce back win, especially after we had some opportunities in the first game, but his group has been resilient all year, despite our record.”
The lengthy ball marked solely the second hit of the sport for the Curve and scored Callan Moss who reached on a stroll.
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Curve’s Callan Moss is greeted at on deck batter Titus Dumitru after scoring on a Omar Alfonzo single.
“It was pretty weird, actually,” Dumitru mentioned. “It kind of felt like a walk-off, but then it wasn’t. But it still felt amazing.”
Dumitru’s heroics put the ending touches on a chilly, dreary night time which made hitting laborious and the stress on Curve pitchers much more troublesome.
“To their credit, they kept throwing strikes and they pitched their innings, got us deep into the game, and gave us a chance,” Fox mentioned.
Fox’s pitching employees was capable of keep on schedule, thanks largely because of starter Jake Shirk and Cy Nielson throwing three and two shutout innings, respectively.
Emmanuel Chapman loaded the bases within the backside of the seventh with two walks and a single, however slammed the door on the Senators to safe the 2-0 win.
“In a perfect world, I would have loved for him to go 1-2-3, but it didn’t work out that way,” Fox mentioned. “But he bowed his neck, gave it his all and got the job done.”
You bought Moss’d
Moss paced Altoona hitters with two monster doubles within the sport one loss. He additionally scored the lone run on a single by Omar Alfonzo within the third inning.
Curve starter Khristin Curtis went six innings and gave up two runs giving some aid to an already skinny pitching employees.
“He was huge,” Fox mentioned. “We needed him to go at least five, and he ended up going six.”
Alessandro Ercolani yielded a run within the seventh to make it a 3-1 loss for the Curve.
Up subsequent
The Curve will ship Peyton Stumbo to the mound tonight. Stumbo is 0-2 with a 5.27 ERA in seven video games with Altoona this season.