The Result
Curve - 7 runs to 1

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

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

At the end of the Game
1 hit from 3 at-bats - double, 1 x run scored, 1 x walk

Brett's at-bats
First at-bat
(did not hear)
Righthanded pitcher
Led off the innings
Ground out to first base - PO3
Second at-bat
(did not hear)
Righthanded pitcher
Bases empty - two down
Double to leftfield
Advanced to third base on a wild pitch
Left stranded at the end of the innings
Third at-bat
(did not hear)
Lefthanded pitcher
Runner at first base - none down
Walk
Advanced to second base on another walk
Advanced to third base on a sacrifice fly
Scored on a hit
Fourth at-bat
Lefthanded pitcher
Runners at first and third base - none down
Ball - outside
Ball - outside
Swing and a miss - "and Roneberg was looking for a fast ball there and swung over the top of that breaking pitch"
Ball - "that pitch gets through the catcher and the runner from third base comes in to score on the passed ball and the other runner advances to second base"
Called strike - on the inside corner - "Roneberg took a couple of steps towards first base thinking he had ball four"
"That is off the handle and lifted into rightfield where the fielder makes the catch for the first out of the innings"
Fly out to rightfield - F9

Heard during the game

Email from Brett

Game Reports

The Altoona Curve punctuated their three-game sweep of the Harrisburg Senators with a 7-1 victory on Wednesday at Blair County Ballpark

Javier Guzman enjoyed his second straight multi-hit game for Altoona, driving in two runs and finishing the game 2-for-4
The Curve second baseman finished the three-game series 6-for-11

Landon Jacobsen won his league-leading eleventh game of the season, surrendering just one run in seven innings while striking out five
Jacobsen’s only mistake was a solo homerun allowed to Salomon Manriquez in the seventh inning, after the Curve had scored the first seven runs of the game

The victory also pushed Jacobsen into first place on the franchise's all-time victories list with twenty-seven, ahead of current Curve pitcher Mike Connolly

Altoona opened the scoring in the second frame, plating two runs off of major league pitcher Ryan Drese, who made the start as he continues he rehabilitation for an elbow injury
Simon Pond scored from third base on an RBI ground out by Guzman
Guzman would collect the second tally of the inning after stealing a bag and then being knocked in by Milver Reyes’ single to left

Drese lasted just 3-2/3 innings, giving up three runs on five hits and walking four batters

The Curve would score two runs in both the fifth and sixth innings to put the game out of reach

Nyjer Morgan scored twice in the game and also stole his tenth base since joining the Curve

The Curve head back on the road Thursday, opening a seven-game road trip at Connecticut tomorrow night
After four games against the Defenders through Sunday, Altoona will enjoy an off day on Monday before opening a three-game set at Harrisburg next Thursday

The Curve are in currently in the middle of a stretch of fourteen of seventeen games on the road

Left-hander Mike Connolly (6-5, 4.30) will take the mound for the Curve against Connecticut’s Jesse Floyd (2-11, 3.90)

First pitch is scheduled for 7.05pm

Landon Jacobsen allowed one run over seven innings as Altoona completed a three-game sweep of Harrisburg with a 7-1 victory on Wednesday afternoon

Jacobsen (11-7) allowed five hits and did not walk a batter while striking out five
The 27-year-old has won his last three starts, and his eleven victories rank second in the Eastern League

Blaine Neal and Matt Peterson each tossed a scoreless inning in relief

Vic Buttler and Javier Guzman each went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored to lead the Curve (60-42), while Brandon Chaves and Milver Reyes both drove in a run

Every player in Altoona's starting lineup managed to reach base safely

Prentice Redman collected three hits for Harrisburg (52-52), while Salomon Manriquez's seventh-inning home run accounted for the Senators' lone run

Ryan Drese (0-2) took the loss, allowing three runs on four hits and four walks over 3-2/3 innings

Jason Norderum surrendered four runs on five hits over 3-1/3 frames, while Devin Perrin hurled a 1-2-3 eighth

All the floundering the Harrisburg Senators have done since the All Star break has landed them in a place they did not want to get back to
A thorough 7-1 beating by the Altoona Curve yesterday put the Senators back at .500 for the season

Just 5-10 since the break, the Senators are 52-52 in Eastern League baseball with their playoff hopes fading
The Senators were .500 at only one other point this season, when they were 27-27 on June 2

Harrisburg has not dipped below .500 all season and will try to keep its head above water as it opens a series tonight at Binghamton
The Senators are 2-1 in the New York hamlet

They lost yesterday before a sizable crowd of 6,067 at Blair County Ballpark, where the Senators are just 1-5

Ryan Drese (0-2), making a third straight rehab start, allowed Altoona's first three runs and took the loss

The Curve scored two in the second inning on an RBI fielder's choice by Javier Guzman and an RBI single by Milver Reyes

Another run scored in the third when Nyjer Morgan walked, stole second, reached third on a groundout and scored on a sacrifice fly by Vic Buttler

Drese left in the fourth with two out and two on

It was Jason Norderum who surrendered Altoona's four additional runs in relief

Altoona rallied for two in the fifth as Brandon Chaves hit a sacrifice fly and Guzman had an RBI single

In the sixth, Buttler drove in a run with a single and another scored on a passed ball

Curve starter Landon Jacobsen (11-7) cruised through seven innings

The only Senators run was a solo home run by Salomon Manriquez in the seventh
It was his fifth

Notes
Enjoying a rare day off was Senators third baseman Kory Casto
He has appeared in 102 of Harrisburg's 104 games this year

On a hazy, steamy Wednesday afternoon, Landon Jacobsen helped the Curve get some more breathing room in their fight for an Eastern League playoff spot

The 6-foot-3, 223-pound righthander tossed seven very efficient innings, allowing just one run and becoming the first Eastern League pitcher to reach eleven victories this season, as Altoona completed a three-game sweep of the Harrisburg Senators, 7-1 before 6,067 fans that got a break from the heat via the Curve’s 'Super Splash' promotion

Jacobsen struck out five, walked none, allowed just four hits - including catcher Salomon Manriquez’s solo homer into the left field bleachers in the seventh inning that foiled his shutout bid - and threw two out of every three of his ninety-five pitches on the day for strikes as he logged his Curve franchise-best twenty-seventhth victory

Curve lefthanded pitcher Mike Connolly, who is second behind Jacobsen in franchise wins with twenty-six, starts tonight’s 7.05pm game on the road against the Connecticut Defenders with a chance to pull back even on the team’s victory list

But individual records aren’t something with which Jacobsen is concerning himself
Winning ballgames for the Curve is, and Altoona helped its playoff chances enormously by sweeping three straight games from Harrisburg
Altoona now leads Harrisburg by nine full games in the race for the second playoff spot in the Southern Division, and the Curve trail first-place Akron by just 2-1/2 games

“It went pretty good today’’ said Jacobsen, who raised his season record to 11-7
“I was able to locate my fast ball well and mix in my off-speed pitch when I needed it’’

About the league lead in wins and team victory record, Jacobsen said, “I don’t even worry about that stuff. I just want to give my team a chance to win, and to continue on in the playoff chase’’

Jacobsen, who was called up to the Pirates’ Class AAA team at Indianapolis briefly last month, was one of six players representing the Curve in the Eastern League All Star Game two weeks ago at Blair County Ballpark

“He’s been real consistent, he leads the league in wins, and he really attacked the strike zone today’’ first-year Curve manager Tim Leiper said of Jacobsen
“He did a great job, he threw a lot of strikes, and we scored runs for him’’

The Curve bolted out to a 7-0 lead in the sixth inning as outfielder Vic Buttler and second baseman Javier Guzman had two hits and knocked in two runs apiece

Altoona broke out to a 2-0 lead in the second inning against Harrisburg righty Ryan Drese, who was on a seventy-five pitch count Wednesday while carrying out a rehab assignment (elbow) from the National League’s Washington Nationals
Simon Pond walked, advanced to third on Brandon Chaves’ single off the glove of first baseman Rich Lane, and scored on Guzman’s forceout
Guzman stole second and scored on Milver Reyes’ single to center

Altoona made it 3-0 in the third when Nyjer Morgan walked, stole second, advanced to third on Brian Bixler’s groundout, and scored on Buttler’s sacrifice fly

The Curve put things out of reach against reliever Jason Norderum in the fifth, scoring twice to make it 5-0 on Chaves’ bases-loaded sacrifice fly that scored Buttler, and Guzman’s single to left that plated Brett Roneberg

In the sixth inning, Morgan’s single, Bixler’s double, Buttler’s RBI single, and a passed ball by Manriquez completed the Curve’s scoring

“Today was an important win for us’’ Buttler said
“Sweeping in front of your home crowd is always good’’

Wednesday capped off a rough three-game stretch for Harrisburg, which was outscored 12-3 in the three-game sweep by the Curve, whose 35-15 record this year at Blair County Ballpark is the best home record among all EL teams

The Curve now have a 54-19 record against Harrisburg at BCB since play started there in 1999

“We got overmatched here in this series’’ said Harrisburg manager John Stearns, a former National League All Star catcher with the New York Mets
“We scored only three runs
Their pitching was outstanding
Altoona has a nice club with a lot of veteran players
I think they have a chance to win the league championship this year’’

Around the Curve
The Curve sent pitcher Josh Shortslef (who has been on the disabled list since late May with a forearm strain) on a rehab assignment to the Gulf Coast League in Bradenton, Fla. Wednesday
“He threw a simulated three-inning game Tuesday, and we’re real encouraged by what we’ve seen’’ Leiper said
The Curve improved to 8-5 this year against Harrisburg, 5-1 at Blair County Ballpark
The Curve start a four-game series in Connecticut tonight, then travel to Harrisburg for a three-game set before returning home Aug. 4 for a three-game weekend series against New Britain