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The Result
Phillies - 5 runs
to 0
The Curve - Year-to-Date
48 won and 34 lost
Brett's Position and
the Batting Order
Playing - First
base
Batting - #4
At the end of the Game
1 hit from 3 at-bats
- double, 1 x walk, 1 x grounded-into-a-double-play
Brett's at-bats
First at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Runner at first base - two down
Ball - outside
Ball - just misses
Ball - outside
Ball - "and Roneberg is issued a four pitch walk"
Walk
Left stranded at the end of the innings
Second at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Bases empty - one down
Ball - low and away
Ball - outside
"Brett seemed to hit that off his fists on the handle of
the bat but he got a lot on it and it goes over the rightfielder's
head and off the wall ...... and Roneberg walks into second base
with a double"
Double to rightfield
Left stranded at the end of the innings
Third at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Runners at first and second base - one down
Ball
Called strike - on the outside corner
Foul ball
Ball - "and that was high and Roneberg had to jump out of
the way"
"That ball is rolled across the diamond and it's collected
by the Phillies' second-baseman who throws to the shortstop covering
second base and the relay to first base is in time to complete
the inning ending double play"
Grounded out to second
base and into a double play - 4 to 6 to 3
Fourth at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Bases empty - one down
Did not hear, but the count was 1ball-1strike
Ball - inside
Foul ball - chopped foul down the first base line
"That ball is popped up into shallow centrefield and the
fielder is coming in and he makes the catch"
Fly out to centrefield
- F8
Heard during the game
(#01) During Brett's first at-bat, the commentator mentioned - "The Curve have some guys on their team who are able to give some good veteran leadership and Roneberg is one of them"
(#02) As Brett came in for his second at-bat, the commentator said - "Brett Roneberg steps in now, and he is currently tied for sixth in the Eastern League with a batting average of .295 at the start of tonight's game"
Email from Brett
Game Reports
The Altoona Curve received a taste of its own
medicine, getting blanked by the Reading Phillies 5-0
Altoona, who was coming off of back-to-back shutout victories,
failed to score a run on Tuesday night, dropping the first of
three games at FirstEnergy Stadium
Neither team was able to mount much of an offensive threat until
the Phillies broke through with four runs in the fourth inning
An error by Curve third baseman Simon Pond extended the inning
and Gary Burnham took advantage with a three-run home run to give
Reading a lead they would not relinquish
Burnham would pace the Phillies’ offense with two homeruns
and four RBI
No other Reading player would turn in a multi-hit effort
Curve starter Ron Chiavacci was the hard-luck loser, dropping
his second straight decision despite not allowing an earned run
The right-hander allowed five hits and struck out three in six
innings of work
Altoona starting pitchers have now gone 21-1/3 innings without
allowing an earned run
The Curve had at least one baserunner in each of the first four
innings, and loaded the bases in the second frame, but couldn’t
push a run across
Zach Segovia, the starter for the Phillies, earned a complete
game shutout victory, surrendering just six hits and striking
out four for his fifth win of the year
The Curve will continue their series against the Phillies on Thursday
night at 7.05pm when Matt Peterson (5-5) opposes Reading’s
J.A. Happ (0-1)
Zach Segovia tossed a seven-hitter and Gary
Burnham homered twice as Reading blanked visiting Altoona, 5-0,
on Tuesday
Segovia (5-4) struck out five and walked three en route to his
first shutout, second straight win and Eastern League-leading
third complete game of the season
Burnham, who went homerless in his first thirty-eight games, hit
a three-run shot in the fourth inning and added a solo blast in
the seventh that capped the scoring
Matt Padgett had an RBI single for the Phillies (35-47), who won
their third straight
Ron Chiavacci (0-2) took the loss after surrendering four runs
on five hits with three strikeouts and two walks over six frames
Vic Buttler and Javier Guzman had two hits apiece and Brett Roneberg doubled for the Curve (48-34)
It was the Zack and Gary Show in Baseballtown
Tuesday night as the Phillies blanked the Altoona Curve 5-0 for
their third straight victory
Zack Segovia (5-4) threw a route-going seven-hitter and the first
nine-inning shutout by a Phillies pitcher since 2002
He struck out five and walked three and pitched out of early trouble,
stranding five runners the first two innings
The Curve (48-34), one of the better-hitting teams in the Eastern
League, managed three singles after the fifth inning
"I was very excited about going out there in the ninth"
the big right-hander said
"It's been a long time since I've been out there for the
last out of the game"
Gary Burnham provided the offensive firepower with a pair of home
runs - breaking a 38-game drought - and knocked in four runs,
giving him fourteen RBIs in his last eight games, seven of which
he has hit safely
"It just took me a little while before I got my home run
stroke" said Burnham before being covered in shaving cream
by a certain bald bullpen teammate
In the fourth inning, the Phillies (35-47) put up four runs, three
of them on Burnham's first home run of the season, which cleared
the second tier of billboards in right field
The inning was set up by Matt Padgett's two-out RBI single
Burnham led off the seventh with another homer to right to expand
the lead to five runs
The loss went to former Kutztown University right-hander Ron Chiavacci
(0-2)
Notes
At gametime, Phillies right-hander Zack Segovia was 2-for-2 as
a batter - he also had walked and was hit by a pitch in four at-bats
this season
Segovia threw 123 pitches in his best outing of the season
Altoona catcher David Parrish was 3-for-3 in throwing out runners
Altoona (Double-A, 48-34) lost, 5-0, at Reading
(Phillies)
RHP Ron Chiavacci (0-2) allowed four runs, none earned, in six
innings
CF Vic Buttler and 2B Javier Guzman each managed two hits for
the Curve
1B Brett Roneberg had
a double, the team's only extra-base hit
The Curve’s Blair County Ballpark magic
must have worn off somewhere along the way to Reading
Altoona opened a seven-game road trip by dropping a 5-0 decision
to the R-Phils, the worst team in the Southern Division, at FirstEnergy
Stadium on Tuesday night
The Curve own the league’s best home record at 30-13, but
the loss dropped its road record to 18-21
Altoona’s offense, coming off a giddy 10-0 bashing of Akron
on Monday night, couldn’t muster very much against Phillies
starter Zach Segovia (5-4)
Segovia tossed a complete game, allowing just seven hits and three
walks while striking out five
Curve starter Ron Chiavacci (0-2) took the loss, surrendering
four runs - none earned - on five hits in six innings
The right-hander walked two and struck out three
Reading did all of its damage against Chiavacci in the fourth
inning, after he had eased through his first three frames facing
the minimum of nine batters
Chiavacci appeared to have reeled off another scoreless inning
when he induced a two-out grounder to third base from Angel Chavez
Simon Pond, making just his sixth start at the hot corner, could
not handle the ball, though, and the Phillies had two runners
on
Chiavacci then surrendered an RBI single and a three-run blast
by Gary Burnham to put Altoona in a 4-0 hole
The Reading outburst snapped a streak of twenty-four consecutive
scoreless innings tossed by Curve pitching, just 4-1/3 short of
the franchise record set in 2000
The Phillies padded their lead when Burnham greeted reliever Chris
Hernandez with his second home run of the game to lead off the
seventh inning
The solo shot marked the first homer Hernandez has given up all
season
Altoona wasted numerous scoring opportunities early in the game