Biddle Baffles Curve on Tuesday
Published on May 21, 2013 under Eastern League (EL1)
Altoona Curve News Release
READING, Pa. - The Curve were shut out for the second time on this road trip and the seventh time this season on Tuesday, this time by the Reading Fightin Phils, 3-0, at FirstEnergy Stadium. Fightins starter Jesse Biddle worked 7.2 innings of the shutout and struck out nine. Pirates RHP Charlie Morton made a fourth rehab start for the Curve on Tuesday and allowed two runs in 4.2 innings pitched while hitting his 80-pitch limit.
Morton (1-1) kept the Fightins off the board in the first before allowing the game's first run in the second. Zach Collier and Tommy Mendonca both singled to start the inning with Collier going first-to-third on Mendonca's single. Troy Hanzawa followed and grounded into a double play but Collier trotted home on the play to put Reading in front, 1-0.
The rehabbing righty then turned in 1-2-3 innings in the third and fourth innings and had retired 10 in a row before walking his mound opponent Biddle (3-3) with two outs in the fifth. Tyson Gillies capitalized on the two-out walk for Reading by doubling in the pitcher Biddle, who had the benefit of running on the 3-2 count.
Gillies was Morton's final batter with Luis Sanz coming in out of the bullpen. The Flemington, N.J. native officially lasted 4.2 innings, allowed two runs, walked two and struck out three.
Altoona didn't find its first hit in the game until the fifth when Carlos Paulino hit a bloop single to right with two outs off Biddle. The Curve wound up with just four hits on the night and no batter reached third base in the game.
Biddle's 7.2 innings nearly tied his career-high of eight innings, which he set last year in the Florida State League. The Pennsylvania native struck out nine and walked four in his third win of the season. Mauricio Robles came on and got the final four outs of the game for the Fightins
The Curve (19-26) will look to end their four-game slide in Wednesday night's 6:35 p.m. game with the Fightins (17-26) from FirstEnergy Stadium. RHP David Bromberg (2-4, 4.65) returns to the rotation after five no-hit innings piggybacking off Charlie Morton his last time out. He'll be opposed by Fightins' RHP Hector Neris (3-1, 4.00) in the third game of the four-game set.
Airtime on ESPN Radio 1430, WVAM and the Curve Radio Network is scheduled for 6:05 p.m. For tickets and more information on the Memorial Day weekend homestand in Curve, Pa. that begins Friday, call 877.99.CURVE, visit AltoonaCurve.com or stop by the ticket windows at Peoples Natural Gas Field.
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