Thursday 6th July 2006
FirstEnergy Stadium - game against the Phillies
Dimensions
Left Field - 330 ft
Left-centrefield - 370 ft
Center Field - 400 ft
Right-centrefield - 370 ft
Right Field - 330 ft
The outfield wall is nine feet high from
the left field foul pole to the left field power alley
The wall is ten feet high the remaining stretch to the right field
foul pole, except directly in front of the right field pool where
it is five feet
Righthanded pitcher - Nick Mattioni
About Nick Mattioni
Righthanded pitcher
Bats - Right
Throws - Right
Height - 6-3
Weight - 195
Born - March 14, 1979, Reading, PA
Resides - Port St. Lucie, FL
How obtained - Signed by Phillies as a minor league free agent,
12/13/05
Education - Graduated from Twin Valley HS - Attended Florida Atlantic
University
Career Highlights
2005 - Began season with Midland (AA) - Promoted to Sacramento
(AAA) - Recalled to Midland, 6/3, where he finished the season
2004 - Released by NYM, 4/1/04 - Began season with Fargo-Moorhead
(Ind.) of the Northern League - Recorded a pro-high 8 saves -
Signed by OAK, 7/15 - Finished season with Midland where he pitched
in 19 games and allowed only two earned runs in first 15.1 IP
2003 - Spent season with Binghamton (AA)
Fourth at-bat of the game
Led off the eighth innings
Ball - change up - low
Foul ball - popped foul back over the screen
Ball - curve ball - high
Ball - fast ball - inside
Foul ball - on the ground behind home plate
Foul ball - back to the screen ------ and then......
"Roneberg gets
onto that pitch and drives it deep into rightfield and the fielder
is going back ...... and he is looking up ...... and it's gone!!!
...... and Roneberg is rounding the bases with his sixth home
run of the season!!!"
HOME RUN - 1 x RBI and
1 x R
#01 - All-Star
selections Simon Pond and Brett Roneberg each homered as Altoona
avoided a three-game sweep with a 5-2 win over the Reading Phillies
Thursday night in Reading
The Curve padded their lead with single runs in the sixth and
eighth innings on solo home runs by Pond and Roneberg
#02 - Simon Pond
started the sixth inning with his tenth homer of the season and
Brett Roneberg led off the eighth with his sixth home run of the
year to make the score 5-1
#03 - Simon Pond
hit his tenth homer in the sixth inning for a 4-1 lead, and Brett
Roneberg smacked his sixth homer in the eighth inning
#04 - Pond, Roneberg propel Curve
Simon Pond and Brett Roneberg homered to power visiting Altoona
to a 5-2 win over Reading on Thursday at FirstEnergy Stadium
Roneberg opened the eighth with a drive over the right-field fence
for his sixth homer, snapping a fourty-five game homerless drought
for the 27-year-old Australian
His last one came on May 15 against the Phillies
