Curve Split Saturday Double-Header with SeaWolves
Published on May 5, 2018 under Eastern League (EL1)
Altoona Curve News Release
CURVE, Pa. - Christian Kelley drilled his third homer of the season to aid a 5-2 Altoona Curve win to complete Friday's rain-suspended game, but the Curve were held to two hits by Beau Burrows of the Erie SeaWolves in a 2-0 defeat in Saturday's regularly-scheduled at Peoples Natural Gas Field.
The Curve (15-12) knocked 10 hits over six offensive innings in the completed game before being handed their second shutout of the season in the loss to the SeaWolves (10-18).
Suspended Game Completed (from May 4)
Win: Logan Sendelbach (2-1)
Loss: Kyle Dowdy (2-2)
Save: Tate Scioneaux (2)
TOG: 2:13
The Curve added two runs on Saturday afternoon to defeat the SeaWolves, 5-2, completing the suspended game from Friday. Before rain halted play with two outs in the bottom of the third, Altoona led 3-1.
Christian Kelley slugged his third homer in the sixth inning and finished 2-for-3 in the contest. In the fourth, Stephen Alemais led off with a double and was driven in on a sacrifice fly by Cole Tucker for the first run after the game resumed.
With two outs in the bottom of the first, the Curve connected on four straight singles by Jason Martin, Will Craig, Jordan George and Logan Hill to manufacture two runs as an answer to Erie's first-inning score. Martin struck again during the third with a lead-off triple, his league-best fourth of the season, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Craig.
Pedro Vasquez made his Double-A debut with the Curve as the starting pitcher on Friday night and allowed one run to Erie through three innings and recorded a pair of strikeouts. Two of Erie's three hits off Vasquez came in the first inning on a double by Kody Eaves and a Dominic Ficociello RBI single put the SeaWolves in front, 1-0.
Logan Sendelbach (Win 2-1), pitching on his 24th birthday, began Saturday on the mound in the fourth and held Erie off the board in his first two innings. Gabriel Quintana and Josh Lester combined for singles to push one run across for Erie in the sixth.
Tate Scioneaux (Save, 2) came on in the sixth and got all three outs to strand a pair of Erie runners, including the tying run. Scioneaux worked around a double by Jake Robson in the seventh for the six-out save.
Scheduled Game
Win: Beau Burrows (3-2)
Loss: J.T. Brubaker (2-2)
Save: John Schreiber (4)
TOG: 2:00
Attendance: 4,228
Erie scored twice early against J.T. Brubaker while Beau Burrows silenced the Curve bats during the second seven-inning contest on Saturday.
Brubaker (Loss, 2-2) worked around multiple baserunners in the first, but Troy Montgomery doubled and was singled home by Sergio Alcantara in the second.
The SeaWolves loaded the bases against the Curve starter in the third, but Brubaker induced an inning-ending double play to work out of trouble.
Alcantara beat a throw to the plate from Stephen Alemais and scored on a fielder's choice in the fourth inning for Erie's second run.
Brubaker walked three and surrendered six hits with one strikeout as his outing ended after four innings.
Altoona relievers Bret Helton and Yeudy Garcia teamed up for three perfect innings of relief behind their starter. Helton pitched the fifth and sixth and struck out two while Garcia tossed the seventh and fanned a pair.
Burrows (Win, 3-2), the Tigers' No. 4 prospect, threw six scoreless innings before giving way to John Schrieber (Save, 4) in the seventh.
The Erie starter allowed singles to Jordan George in the second along with a single by Ke'Bryan Hayes in the sixth. Burrows also walked a pair and struck out five.
The Curve and SeaWolves will complete their five-game series on Sunday with first pitch set for 2 p.m. On a Major League rehab assignment from the Pirates, right-hander Joe Musgrove will start for Altoona and Erie will turn to right-hander Sandy Baez (0-2, 4.88).
Sunday is another Ritchey's Dairy Curve Kids' Club Game. All kids with a ticket to Sunday's game are welcome to participate in the second youth baseball clinic from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and sharpen their skills with Curve players and coaches. There will also be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles appearance on Sunday, presented by The Comics Vault.
For tickets or more information, visit AltoonaCurve.com, call 877.99.CURVE or stop by the PNG Field box office.
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