Curve Hit Road On Sour Note In 7-2 Loss
Published on April 26, 2007 under Eastern League (EL1)
Altoona Curve News Release
ALTOONA- In the finale of a four-games series at Blair County Ballpark, the Bowie Baysox turned the tables from a night earlier, and were convincing in a 7-2 victory. The victory also allowed Bowie to sneak out of a town with a series win after taking three of four games from Altoona.
Alay Soler made the start for the Curve, looking to pick up where he left off in his first start of the year, when he held the Harrisburg Senators hitless over five innings. Soler did hold Bowie without a hit in the first inning, but the Baysox got to the right-hander in the second. With one out in the inning, Soler walked Jeff Fiorentino. Val Majewski singled to move Fiorentino to third and put runners on the corners and Matt Cepicky followed with a sacrifice fly to center that scored Fiorentino for a 1-0 Bowie lead. Brandon Sing then blooped a single down the right field line which was in the air long enough for Majewski to score all the way from first base, and the Baysox lead stood at 2-0.
Bowie starter Oscar Alvarez stymied the Curve for four innings, but they struck back in the fifth. Chris Truby, who finished with three base hits on the night, singled to lead off the inning. Dave Parrish then belted his first homerun of the year, a drive that cleared the wall in the deepest part of the ballpark in center field, to tie the score 2-2.
Bowie took control in the seventh as Soler departed the ballgame in favor of Justin Vaclavik. Vaclavik got the first out of the inning, but then surrendered a home run to Brandon Sing that gave the lead back to the Baysox 3-2. The next three batters all singled pushing Ryan Hubele across for a two-run lead. Vaclavik was replaced by Romulo Sanchez who gave up a two-run single to Luis Hernandez as Bowie effectively broke the game open at 6-2.
The seventh inning rally made a winner of Oscar Alvarez who left the game after the sixth. Salazar held the Curve to two runs in six innings to improve to (3-1) on the year.
The seventh also left Justin Vaclavik on the hook for the loss. Vaclavik allowed four earned runs in just a 1/3 of an inning to fall to (1-1)
Ryan Hubele added an insurance run and capped the scoring with a solo home run off of Mike Nannini to lead off the ninth. Nannini did recover to strike out the side.
The loss dropped the Curve to 0-5 against left-handed starters at home, as they lost to all three lefties Bowie threw at them in the series.
The Curve hit the road tomorrow to begin a three-game series with the Binghamton Mets. The series will begin a six-game road trip against the Northern Division as the Curve will also travel to Norwich for three games with the Connecticut Defenders before returning to BCB next Friday. LHP Josh Shortslef (0-3, 4.80) will make the start for Altoona. RHP Mike Devaney (0-1, 5.63) will oppose him for Binghamton.
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