Trouble for Erie? -- you 'Brett'cha!

In four games against the Erie SeaWolves this season, Brett Roneberg is batting .474 with four runs scored
The Australian native has the highest on-base percentage (.500) of any Curve player against Erie, going 9-for-19 with a walk against the intrastate rival
Roneberg became the seventh player in the history of the Curve to collect five hits in a game when he went 5-for-6 against the SeaWolves at Jerry Uht Park on May 3, and has had at least one hit in all four games he's played against Erie

The Result
Curve - 4 runs to 2

The Curve - Year-to-Date
33 won and 18 lost

Brett's Position and the Batting Order
Playing - Designated hitter
Batting - #3

At the end of the Game
1 hit from 4 at-bats - single, 1 x walk

Brett's at-bats
First at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Bases empty - two down
Swing and a miss
Foul ball - back to the top of the net
Ball - high
Ball - inside
"Brett rips this pitch into rightfield for the Curve's first hit of the ballgame"
Single to rightfield
Advanced to second base after the next batter was hit by the pitch
Left stranded at the end of the innings
Second at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Runners at second and third base - two down
Ball - downstairs
Ball - change up
Ball - low
Called strike - "and Brett was taking all the way there"
Ball - low
Walk
Out at second base on an infield fielder's choice play
Third at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Led off the innings
Ball
Called strike
Swing and a miss
Foul ball
Ball - high
"There's a chopper on two hops towards second base and the fielder gathers it up and makes the out"
Ground out to second base - 4 to 3
Fourth at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Bases empty - two down
"That ball is lifted into centrefield and the fielder makes an easy catch to end the innings"
Fly out to centrefield - F8
Fifth at-bat
Lefthanded pitcher
Runner at first base - two down
Ball - downstairs
Called strike - on the outside corner
Ball - low
Ball - downstairs
"There's a fly ball into centrefield and Brett drove it well but the fielder is going back and makes the catch just shy of the warning track"
Fly out to centrefield - F8

Heard during the game

(#01) After Brett's first at-bat, the commentator mentioned - "Brett has moved up in the Eastern League Top-10 in the batting average category and is now in second spot with 336 ...... with that single Brett has now hit safely in twenty-seven of the thirty-two games he has played in since joining up with the Curve ...... he has played catch-up very well, as he is also tied for third position in the Top-10 with thirty runs scored"

(#02) As Brett came in for his second at-bat, the commentator said - "The top of the second innings and the score is tied at two ...... there are runners at second and third base with two down, and the Curve have a good chance to take the lead here with one of their hotter hitters coming to the plate" - but Brett did not get a chance to swing the bat as he was given a five-pitch walk!!!

Email from Brett

Game Reports

The Altoona Curve scored two runs in the eighth inning to break a deadlocked score and defeat the Erie SeaWolves 4-2 at Jerry Uht Park on Monday

Craig Stansberry smacked a double to plate what proved to be the game-winning run, and finished the contest a team-best 2-for-3 with a run scored
Ray Sadler came around to score from first base on Stansberry’s extra-base hit with two outs in the eighth inning
The Curve’s second baseman was then chased home on a single by Brant Ust to provide an insurance run

Curve starter Chris Rojas (0-0) scattered seven hits and didn’t allow a run over four innings of work in his second appearance with Altoona and earned a no decision

Shane Youman (2-2) was brought on in relief and kept the Erie bats quiet, surrendering just three baserunners in four innings to get his second win of the season

Jorge Vasquez earned his third save, allowing just one hit in the ninth inning

Virgil Vasquez (3-5) was saddled with the loss, giving up three runs on seven hits in 7-1/3 innings pitched
Vasquez also hit three batters, including Sadler in the eighth inning, who scored the eventual game-winning run

The SeaWolves grabbed the early lead, scoring twice in their first at-bat thanks to a leadoff triple by Juan Francia
Scott Tousa followed with a RBI single and later scored on a two-bagger hit to left field by Kurt Airoso to make the score 2-0

Altoona tied the game in top half of the second inning on four straight two-out singles
Ust started the parade of hits and was joined by Milver Reyes, Javier Guzman and Vic Buttler who all had base knocks in the inning
The Curve could not take the lead however, as Simon Pond left the bases loaded after grounding into an inning-ending fielder’s choice

The Curve have now won seven of their last eight games and will open a three-game series against the Akron Aeros at Canal Park on Tuesday at 7.05pm
Landon Jacobsen (5-4) will start for Altoona against Adam Miller (4-4) for the second-place Aeros

Craig Stansberry continued his hot hitting for Altoona, driving in the go-ahead run as the Curve beat host Erie, 4-2, on Monday

Stansberry snapped a 2-2 tie in the top of the eighth inning with a two-out double to left field that plated Ray Sadler all the way from first base
The 24-year-old second baseman scored an insurance run later in the inning and finished 2-for-3

Stansberry has at least two hits in six of his last eight games, batting .414 (12-for-29) with seven doubles and seven RBIs during that stretch

Brian Ust, Javier Guzman and Vic Buttler drove in one run apiece for the Curve (33-18), who have won seven of eight

Shane Youman (2-2) picked up the the win by tossing four innings of scoreless relief
He allowed three hits and struck out one

Jorge Vasquez struck out one in the ninth for his third save

The SeaWolves (24-26) jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first on an RBI single by Scott Tousa and Kurt Airoso's run-scoring double

Virgil Vasquez (3-5) took the loss after surrendering three runs on seven hits with a walk and three hit batsmen in 7-1/3 innings
He struck out five

The SeaWolves got another strong starting pitching performance in game four against the Altoona Curve, but came up short, falling by a score of 4-2

The ‘Wolves struck first in the bottom of the first inning
Juan Francia tripled down the right field line to start the inning
Scott Tousa came to the plate and singled through the right side of the infield, scoring Francia, putting Erie up 1-0
Kurt Airoso came to the plate with one out and doubled in Tousa from first to give the SeaWolves a 2-0 lead

The Curve tied the game in the top of the second inning off of SeaWolves starter Virgil Vasquez
After Vasquez struck out the first two batters of the inning, he surrendered four-straight singles to Brant Ust, Milver Reyes, Javier Guzman and Vic Butler allowing two runs to cross the plate
Vasquez walked Brett Roneberg to load the bases but induced a ground out off the bat of Simon Pond to end the inning

The score would remain the same until the top of the eighth
Vasquez retired Pond but hit Ray Sadler and was taken out of the game
Brian Rogers came into the game in relief and got Rafael Alvarez to fly-out for the second out
Craig Stansberry smacked a two-out double allowing the Curve to take a 3-2 lead
Ust followed with another single, plating the second run of the inning and Altoona went ahead 4-2

Vasquez tossed 7.1 innings allowing three runs off of seven hits - he walked one and struck out five in taking his third loss of the season

The SeaWolves had several scoring opportunities throughout the game, however they could not convert
In the first, Airoso was stranded at second with only one out
In the second, Chris Maples doubled off the top of the left field wall leading off the inning, but was stranded in scoring position
In the third, the ‘Wolves got runners to second and third with two outs and again could not score
Maples hit his second double of the game when he led off the fourth and was stranded at third base with less than two outs
In all, the SeaWolves left nine runners on base in the ballgame, six of those in scoring position

The SeaWolves have now lost four of their last five ballgames
That comes after the team won a season-high nine in a row from May 17 to May 24