Curve swept by 'Ducks in high-scoring double-header
CURVE, Pa. -- The Altoona Curve dropped both games of a double-header with the Akron RubberDucks on Saturday at Peoples Natural Gas Field. The 'Ducks blanked Altoona, 7-0, in the first game before the Curve blew a late lead to fall, 10-7, in game two.With two losses on Saturday, the
CURVE, Pa. -- The Altoona Curve dropped both games of a double-header with the Akron RubberDucks on Saturday at Peoples Natural Gas Field. The 'Ducks blanked Altoona, 7-0, in the first game before the Curve blew a late lead to fall, 10-7, in game two.
With two losses on Saturday, the Curve (6-4) have lost four of their last five games after starting the season 5-0. The RubberDucks (3-7) have won back-to-back games for the first time in 2019. Additionally, Saturday's double-header sweep for Akron is the first by a Curve opponent since July 31, 2016 at Trenton.
Akron starter
The 'Ducks jumped on Curve starter
Hightower worked 4.1 innings, allowing just the two first-inning runs, before the bullpen took over.
Akron added five more runs in the fifth off Altoona reliever
All five runs in the fifth came with two outs and were unearned due to a one-out error on second baseman
Dressed as the Allegheny Yinzers in the nightcap, the Curve traded leads with Akron in the middle before the 'Ducks pulled away against the bullpen.
The Curve jumped ahead, 1-0, in the second inning on
Akron answered in the third when
The see-saw action continued in the fourth when
Altoona built their lead to four with three more scores in the fifth inning.
In the sixth, the 'Ducks rallied for eight runs and sent 14 hitters to the plate. Altoona reliever
Despite allowing five runs in two and two-third innings, Eubank (1-1) earned the win.
The Curve threatened in the seventh, scoring one more run on a wild pitch, but
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