Delaney Delivers in 10-5 Win
Published on July 16, 2007 under Eastern League (EL1)
Altoona Curve News Release
ALTOONA- Jason Delaney and Adam Boeve eached clubbed two solo home runs to help power the Curve to a 10-5 victory over the Bowie Baysox in game one of a three-game series at Blair County Ballpark on Monday Night.
Delaney homered in his first two at-bats, including leading off the second inning to give the Curve a 1-0 lead. Delaney finished the night with four hits and reached base all five times he came to the plate.
The Baysox responded to Delaney's first homer with a three-run blast of their own in the fourth inning. Jason Roach, making a spot-start for the Curve, permitted back-to-back singles to Oscar Salazar and Luis Jimenez with one out. Jeff Fiorentino followed with a drive over the right field wall to give Bowie the lead, 3-1.
That lead vanished in the bottom of the inning. Steven Pearce led off the inning with a single off of Bowie starter Chris Waters. Boeve followed with his first blast of the night, a towering drive to left field to level the game, 3-3. Delaney went back-to-back with Boeve when he took Waters out to left field again for the Curve lead. Waters got the first two outs of the inning, but Taber Lee sparked the rally again with a double. Jason Bowers followed with a double to score Lee and put the Curve in front 5-3. Vic Buttler singled in Bowers for a three-run lead before Waters departed the game and the inning ended.
Delaney took a shot at history in the fifth. With Sendy Rleal on in relief, Delaney belted a ball that appeared headed for the bleachers in left, but banged off the wall a foot short for a double. Delaney would have been the first ever player in Curve history to hit three home runs in history. He did score a batter later on a Dave Parrish single for a 7-3 Altoona lead.
The Baysox got a lone run back in both the sixth and seventh innings to close within 7-5, but the Curve blew it open in the eighth.
Buttler led off with a triple and came in on a Walker single. Walker stole second and advanced to third on a throwing error. Pearce sent a sacrifice fly to center field to score Walker. Boeve capped the scoring with his second home run of the night, this time off of reliever Rommie Lewis.
It marked the second time this season that two Curve hitters had clubbed two home runs in the same game. Pearce and Brett Roneberg each hit two against the New Britain Rock Cats on June 12th also at Blair County Ballpark.
Boeve learned that he had been promoted back to Triple-A Indianapolis after the ballgame.
Romulo Sanchez (4-2) threw the final three innings of the ballgame. Due to the fact that Roach had left the game one out shy of being eligible for the win, he was awarded his fourth win.
Waters (4-8) was tagged with his eighth loss of the year as the Curve won for just the fourth time in 12 ballgames with the Baysox at BCB this season.
Altoona will look for the series win on Tuesday night at 7:05 PM. LHP Josh Shortslef (2-9, 4.29) will start for the Curve against RHP Fredy Deza (3-7, 5.45) for the Baysox.
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