The Result
Baysox - 5 runs to 1

The Curve - Year-to-Date
57 won and 42 lost

Brett's Position and the Batting Order
Playing - Rightfield
Batting - #4

At the end of the Game
1 hit from 2 at-bats - single, 1 x walk, 1 x strike out, 1 x hit-by-pitched-ball

Brett's at-bats
First at-bat
Lefthanded pitcher
Runner at first base - two down
Foul ball - back over the screen
Foul ball - back
"And that pitch comes inside and hits Roneberg ...... and there is nothing in that as the last thing the pitcher would want to do is hit a batter who he is in front of with an '0-2' count"
Hit by pitched ball (the first time this season!!!)
Advanced to second base on a wild pitch
Left stranded at the end of the innings
Second at-bat
Lefthanded pitcher
Runner at first base - two down
Ball - "and the runner is off!!! ...... and he beats the throw and is safe at second base!!! ...... and that now gives Roneberg an RBI opportunity"
Ball - breaking ball - low and away - "and that makes it a good hitter's count for Brett"
Called strike
Ball - "that pitch was tailing inside and misses the plate"
Called strike - breaking ball
Ball - outside
Walk
Left stranded at the end of the innings
Third at-bat
Lefthanded pitcher
Bases empty - one down
"Brett gets on to that pitch and hits it onto left-centrefield for a base hit ...... and he has now been on base all three times in tonight's game"
Single to left-centrefield
Advanced to second base on another hit
Left stranded at the end of the innings
Fourth at-bat
Lefthanded pitcher
Runner at first base - one down
Ball - low and away
Called strike - on the outside corner
Foul ball - on the left side
"And Roneberg swings and misses at a good hard slider for the second out of the innings"
Strike out

Heard during the game

(#01) As Brett came in for his second at-bat, the commentator mentioned - "Brett came in to tonight's game owning a modest four game hitting streak ...... and that is the longest current streak of any Curve player"
Following Brett's third at-bat, the commentator continued with - "And that hit gives Brett a five game hitting streak which is the longest on the team at the moment"

Email from Brett

Game Reports

The Altoona Curve’s offense struggled for the second game in a row, falling to the Bowie Baysox Sunday night at Prince George’s Stadium, 5-1

Vic Buttler collected two hits for Altoona, who managed to score just one run or less in three of the four games at Bowie

The final contest of the Curve’s seven-game road trip was a pitchers’ duel until the Baysox came through with four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to stretch the lead to 5-0 and put the game out of reach

The Curve snapped a seventeen inning scoreless streak and avoided a second-straight shutout at the hands of the Baysox with a single run in the top of the ninth

Three of the first four batters in the inning earned hits, including a leadoff single by Brandon Chaves, to load the bases
Nyjer Morgan showed off his tremendous speed, beating out what was a tailor-made double-play ball hit to the shortstop to allow Chaves to score Altoona’s only run of the game

Wardell Starling had his longest outing of the season spoiled with a loss, after surrendering three earned runs on four hits in 6-1/3 innings

The Baysox scored the first run of the game in the third inning, when Bryan Bass hit his second home run of the year to center field

Bowie would pile on four more runs in the seventh when Bass, who finished the game 2-for-4 with two runs and three RBI, ripped a bases-loaded single to left off of reliever Blaine Neal

Garrett Olson earned his third win of the year, pitching seven shutout innings and striking out six Curve batters

Altoona out-slugged the Baysox in the game 8-6, marking just the fourth time in fourty-nine games this year that they have lost a game when outhitting their opponents

The Curve return to Blair County Ballpark for a three-game series against the Harrisburg Senators beginning Monday at 7.05pm
Jason Roach (5-2, 2.63) squares off against the Senators’ Justin Echols

Garrett Olson tossed seven shutout innings and Bryan Bass drove in three runs as Bowie beat visiting Altoona, 5-1, on Sunday

Olson (3-2) allowed four hits, struck out six and issued one walk in notching his second straight win
The 22-year-old left-hander pitched eight shutout frames against Erie on July 18

Bass belted his second homer, a two-out solo shot to give the Baysox (44-53) a 1-0 lead in the third
He also ripped a two-run single in the seventh and scored on Jeff Fiorentino's base hit

Bowie reliever Tim Byrdak yielded four hits over the final two frames

Curve starter Wardell Starling (2-2) gave up three runs on four hits over 6-1/3 innings to take the loss, fanning four and issuing four walks

Blaine Neal yielded two runs while recording two outs in the seventh

Brandon Chaves singled to lead off the ninth and ended the Curve's seventeen inning scoring drought when he came home on Nyjer Morgan's forceout

Altoona (57-42) has dropped two in a row after winning three straight

The Bowie Baysox took the final game of their four-game series with Altoona, defeating the Curve, 5-1, Sunday night in front of 4,691 fans on “Football Fever” Night at Prince George's Stadium

Bryan Bass (pictured) put the Baysox on the board first with a solo shot over the right field wall in the third inning
It was his second home run of the season and first since June 28

Bowie had base runners in each of the next three innings, but Altoona Curve starter Wardell Starling was able to keep them from scoring

In the seventh, Bowie extended its lead to 5-0
Ryan Hubele led off the inning with a single to center and then advanced on a sacrifice by Rayner Bautista
After Gera Alvarez walked, Todd Donovan reached on an error to load the bases
Bass singled to left and then advanced to second on the throw as both Hubele and Alvarez scored
Donovan and Bass then scored on Jeff Fiorentino’s single to left

Baltimore Orioles outfielder Jay Gibbons, who was making a rehabilitation start, was held hitless, giving him a career 1-for-19 (.053) showing in his four rehab appearances with the Baysox

Altoona attempted a comeback in the ninth as Brandon Chaves and Javier Guzman led off the inning with back-to-back singles
Tim Byrdak, also on a rehab assignment with the Baysox, struck out Taber Lee
Milver Reyes singled to left to load the bases for the Curve
Chaves broke up the Baysox’ shutout, scoring on a fielder’s choice
Byrdak preserved the win as he struck out Brian Bixler to end the game

Garrett Olson improved to 3-2 on the season, pitching seven shutout innings and allowing four hits

Wardell Starling (2-2) took the loss for the Altoona Curve

The Curve's bats have gone quiet all of a sudden

Altoona followed a Saturday night shutout at the hands of Bowie with yet another tough offensive showing, dropping a 5-1 decision at Prince George's Stadium on Sunday night

The Curve collected eight harmless singles and have batted .156 (10-for-64) with no extra-base hits over the past two games

Baysox pitching clamped down on Altoona for seventeen consecutive scoreless innings over the two games until the Curve scratched out a run in the ninth inning on Sunday

Altoona starter Wardell Starling (2-2) suffered the loss despite pitching well

The Curve entered the seventh inning trailing just 1-0, a Bryan Bass homer in the third inning accounting for the run

Bowie immediately threatened in the seventh, however, chasing Starling with a leadoff single and a one-out walk
Reliever Blaine Neal failed to keep the game close, allowing three consecutive singles that scored both inherited runners and then two more runs that stretched the Bowie lead to 5-0

Starling finished with a line of three earned runs allowed on four hits and four walks in 6-1/3 innings
He struck out four

Baysox starter Garrett Olson (3-2) tossed seven scoreless innings, allowing four hits and a walk and striking out six

Orioles outfielder Jay Gibbons started as the designated hitter and batted 0-for-4 in the first game of his rehab assignment with Bowie

Altoona enters its upcoming series against Harrisburg sporting a six-game lead over the third-place Senators in the Southern Division standings
Regardless of how Altoona fares over the next three days, however, it still holds its playoff destiny in its own hands
The Curve play ten more games against the Senators after this upcoming series