Altoona Curve Game Information: June 13, 2013
June 13, 2013 - Eastern League (EL1)
Altoona Curve News Release
ABOUT LAST NIGHT...: Altoona was able to sweep a doubleheader from the New Britain Rock Cats by scores of 7-1 and 3-1 on Wednesday night in New Britain. Stolmy Pimentel (4-3) matched a career-high with seven innings pitched in the first game last night, throwing a complete game will allowing just one run. He walked six, which set a new career-high for the righty, but managed to allow just three hits. The Curve used a four-run third highlighted by a pair of two-run doubles by Drew Maggi and Alex Dickerson to go up, 4-0. Jarek Cunningham homered in the sixth inning, his 12th overall homer of the season, to make it, 5-0, and the Curve added two more for good measure in the seventh. Justin Howard and Cunningham each finished the first game with three hits apiece. In the second game, former Twins righty and Rock Cat from parts of 2010-12 David Bromberg dominated his former team and organization with a 12-strikeout performance in just six innings. Altoona grabbed an early lead for Bromberg with more runs in the third inning. Oscar Tejeda, who was added back to the Curve roster on Wednesday, homered with one out off Trevor May (5-3) and placed the Curve up, 2-0. Bromberg took over from there, allow- ing just one run on a sac fly in the bottom of the third. Mel Rojas, Jr. drove in a big insurance run in the top of the seventh for the 3-1 win.
CURVE/ROCK CATS SERIES: This three-game set will be the first of six total games that these two teams play against one another in 2013. New Britain will visit Curve, Pa. at the end of the month (June 24-26). FOR ALTOONA: Road-warrior Casey Sadler take to the mound and puts his perfect road record on the line tonight in the series finale. He's been dynamite on the road this season, going 5-0 with a 2.42 ERA in seven starts (44.2 IP). Opponents have hit .217 off Sadler away from Peoples Natural Gas Field and he's allowed less than a hit an inning on the road. Last time out, Sadler was saddled with a loss at home on June 8 despite a quality start. He gave up three runs (one earned) on five hits in six innings in an eventual, 9-3, defeat. He enters today's start with the 10th best ERA in the league with a 3.20 ERA and leads the circuit in innings pitched with 81.2.
FOR NEW BRITAIN: On the mound for the Rock Cats in the finale on Thursday is LHP Logan Darnell, who has the fifth-best ERA in the 12-team league at 2.90. Darnell, 24, spent all of the 2012 season in a Rock Cats uniform and was 11-12 with a 5.08 ERA in 28 starts after a cup of coffee in Double-A at the end of 2011. A sixth-round pick in the 2010 draft out of Kentucky, Darnell has come out on par this season, with sub-3.00 ERAs in each of his first two months of the season. He's faltered a bit here in June, however, and gone 1-1 but allowed 10 runs (seven earned) on 18 hits in 12.2 innings. The southpaw has been extremely tough at home this season with all five of his wins at New Britain Stadium and a 2.26 ERA in eight starts.
LOOKING FOR THE NIMBUS 3000: The Curve have a chance at their first three-game sweep of 2013 with a win today over the Rock Cats in the series finale. Altoona had a shot at sweeping the Fightins during the last homestand but the finale was rained out and rescheduled for August.
YOU COMPLETE ME: RHP Stolmy Pimentel's complete game in Game 1 on Wednesday night was the second com- plete game this season thrown by a Curve pitcher and the third in his MiLB career. It was, however, the first seven- inning complete game of his career as his others were of a five-inning (rain-shortened) and six-inning (losing side of a seven-inning game) variety. His seven innings matched a career-high, something that the San Cristobal, D.R. native has done nine times in his career and three times this season.
REMEMBER ME?: Former Twins farmhand David Bromberg really took it to his old team on Wednesday night in the second game. The California native pitched in New Britain for parts of the 2010-12 seasons before signing with the Pirates this offseason as a minor league free agent. His 12 strikeouts were a season high for Curve, surpassing the pair of 10 strikeout games by Jameson Taillon earlier this year. The 12 punchouts, however, are not a career high for Bromberg, who whiffed 13 for Low-A Beloit of the Midwest League on August 24, 2008. It's also the most strikeouts for a Curve pitcher in a single game since '05 and just behind the franchise mark set by Tom Gorzelanny on 9/9/05 vs. Akron in a playoff game (13).
WINNING WEDNESDAYS: Altoona picked up a pair of wins on Wednesday by sweeping the doubleheader in New Britain. Wednesday has been far and away the best day for the Curve statistically this season. They are 7-3 overall in the middle day of the work week and 5-1 on the road on Wednesdays. The team has no more than four wins on any other day of the week this season.
MEL'S DRIVE IN: Outfielder Mel Rojas, Jr. was a combined 1-for-8 with an RBI in the pair of games on Wednesday. Since May 14, the younger Rojas has hit .317 (32-for-101) with five doubles, five triples, one home run and 13 RBI in 26 games. His 0-for-4 effort in game one on Wednesday ended his season-best hitting streak at eight games but he's hit safely in 18-of-21 since May 19.
TRIP WIRE: Mel Rojas, Jr. tripled on Sunday night in the loss to Bingham- ton for the club's 23rd triple of the season, which is second-most in the league behind Portland's 27. Rojas, Jr. now has five triples on the season to lead the team ( Carlos Paulino and the departed Andrew Lambo each have four). His five triples are just out of the top-5 in the league with everyone tied at six. Of the team's 23 total triples, 16 of them have been hit at home.
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