Curve Drop Second Straight to Aeros, 3-1
Published on May 19, 2010 under Eastern League (EL1)
Altoona Curve News Release
CURVE, Pa. - The Altoona Curve dropped their second straight contest to the Aeros on Wednesday night, falling, 3-1, to Akron at Blair County Ballpark. Eric Berger (1-2) earned the win for Akron while Tim Alderson (2-2) suffers his second loss in as many starts for Altoona.
The Curve actually took the initial lead in the ballgame in the second when Jose de los Santos smashed a ball to second with the bases loaded to plate Josh Harrison from third. Harrison's run was the first for Altoona at home in just over 19 innings as they had been held scoreless at Blair County Ballpark since the fifth inning of the May 11th game versus Harrisburg. With the bases still loaded, Gorkys Hernandez struck out to end the inning but the Curve had the lead, 1-0.
Alderson, who retired the first 10 men he faced in order, surrendered a game-tying home run in the fourth with one away when Jared Goedert hit a home run to left for Akron. After Alderson battled back to get Nick Weglarz, Matt McBride homered to left and Akron was up by one, 2-1. It was the second home run of the series for McBride, who's two-run home run on Tuesday was enough for an Akron win.
McBride would give the Aeros some more breathing room in the sixth when he hit a sacrifice fly to score Goedert and increase Akron's lead to, 3-1.
Altoona did have its scoring opportunities in the contest but stranded a total of 11 men in the game. The Curve loaded the bases with no one out in the seventh off reliever Connor Graham but Graham struck out Chase d'Arnaud and then induced a double-play ball off the bat of Jordy Mercer.
In the eighth, Altoona threatened once more with two on and one out but Zach Putnam got Miles Durham to fly out and Shelby Ford to bounce back to the mound to end the inning.
Hector Gimenez finished the game 3-for-4 while de los Santos had a pair of hits in the loss. Alderson finished six innings, his longest outing of the year, and issued the three runs on five hits while striking out one. Michael Dubee and Corey Hamman combined for three scoreless innings for the Curve.
The Curve (22-16) will try and salvage the finale against the Aeros (16-23) on Thursday morning at 10:30 a.m. It is the final School Kids/Late Shift Workers Day of the season at Blair County Ballpark. LHP Rudy Owens (3-2, 3.86) will look to get Altoona back in the win column while RHP Justin Germano (2-1, 2.79) throws for Akron.
Late shift workers can take advantage of $1 off Grandstand and UPMC Health Plan Outfield Reserve tickets to the game. For tickets and more information, visit www.AltoonaCurve.com or call 877.99.CURVE. Radio coverage begins at 10 a.m. on ESPN Radio 1430, WVAM and the Altoona Curve Radio Network.
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