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EL1 Binghamton Rumble Ponies

B-Mets Hubbard Hits Game-Winner, Drop Altoona

July 7, 2010 - Eastern League (EL1)
Binghamton Rumble Ponies News Release


Marshall Hubbard came off the bench with a pinch-hit, two-run double to push Binghamton over Altoona 9-6 at Blair County Ballpark Wednesday night in 10 innings. The B-Mets ripped a season-high 19 hits, including four hits for Sean Ratliff, and set a new franchise record with nine doubles.

Michael Fisher started the 10th inning rally with a clean single to right off Curve stopper Ramon Aguero. Two batters later, Aguero walked Kirk Nieuwenhuis to put runners at first and second. Hubbard then entered as a pinch-hitter for the pitcher Emary Frederick and smashed a double over the head of rightfielder Brandon Jones, bringing both men home to score. Josh Satin rounded out the game's scoring with an RBI double to right-center, driving home Hubbard to make the lead three.

Eddie Kunz, the B-Mets 2008 closer, turned back the clock with the save, working a scoreless 10th despite putting two runners on in the frame. Frederick was credited with the win for hurling 1 2/3 innings of one-run relief.

Binghamton (46-40) jumped on Curve starter Rudy Owens in the first. Nieuwenhuis led the game off with a double for the third straight night. Jon Malo advanced him to third with a groundout to second and Nick Evans plated the leadoff man with a clean single to left. Satin followed with a double to put runners at second and third. Ratliff plated Evans with an RBI single and Raul Reyes put the finishing touch on the frame with an RBI single to right, making it 3-0 B-Mets.

Ratliff keyed the offense again in the third inning, ripping a double down the first-base line with one out off Owens. Mike Nickeas followed with an RBI double, to up the advantage to 4-0.

Evans added to the lead in the fifth with a solo blast to deep left-center starting off the inning. It was Evans' 15th homer of the year, advancing the margin to 5-0. Owens exited later in the frame. The lefty went a season-low 4 1/3 innings and allowed five runs on 13 hits, the most allowed by a Curve starter this season.

Altoona (53-32) mounted a comeback in the bottom of the fifth, striking for three runs against Chris Schwinden, who had worked four scoreless innings prior to the onslaught. After Gorkys Hernandez and Josh Harrison singled, Hector Gimenez laced a sacrifice fly to center, plating Hernandez. Later on, Jones and Miles Durham slapped RBI singles to knock Schwinden from the game after 4 2/3 innings. Roy Merritt relieved the starter and stranded two runners. Schwinden was charged for three runs on a season-high 10 hits.

Merritt was victimized by an error from Fisher beginning the sixth. Altoona hurler Dustin Molleken reached on a wild throw from the third baseman opening the stanza. Chase d'Arnaud singled to advance Molleken to second and Hernandez hit a slow roller to third, moving the runners into scoring position. With one out, Harrison hit a sac fly to center, scoring Molleken to get the Curve within a run.

In the eighth, Altoona rallied to take the lead. Kris Watts singled off Merritt to open the inning. Anthony Norman sacrificed him to second, pushing Merritt out of the game in favor of Frederick. The right-hander walked the first hitter he faced, d'Arnaud, and then got a groundball to third that moved the runners up to second and third. With two outs, Harrison lined a single into center, plating Watts and d'Arnaud to give the Curve their only lead, 6-5.

Diego Moreno, who had worked a scoreless eighth, came out in the ninth to try for the win. However, Satin doubled to right with one out to reach scoring position. Ratliff struck the equalizer with a double to gap in left-center, plating Satin to send the game to extras.

Satin went 3-6 and ripped three of Binghamton's nine doubles. The team's previous record was eight, which had been equaled twice, last by the 2010 squad which smashed eight doubles against New Hampshire May 8 at NYSEG Stadium.

Binghamton will try for its seventh consecutive series win Thursday night at 7:00 PM in the finale of the four-game set with the Curve. RHP Josh Stinson (5-1, 3.18) gets the call for the B-Mets against RHP Bryan Morris (4-3, 3.66) of Altoona. The radio broadcast on Newsradio 1290 WNBF begins at 6:45 PM with the Horizons Federal Credit Union Pre-Game Show.

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