The Result
Curve - 10 runs to 4

The Curve - Year-to-Date
62 won and 44 lost

Brett's Position and the Batting Order
Did Not Start - has been "as sick as a dog"!!!
Playing
Batting - #
----------Entered the game as a pinch hitter in the top of the eighth innings

At the end of the Game
1 hit from 1 at-bats - single, 2 x runs-batted-in

Brett's at-bats
First at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Top of the eighth innings!!!
The Curve are leading by four runs to two!!!
The bases are loaded!!!
One down!!!
NOTE - I was not listening to the game - below is a copy of the play-by-play report on the innings
----------Pitcher Change - Righthanded Pitcher Devin Perrin replaces Jason Norderum
----------Ray Sadler called out on strikes
----------Simon Pond walks
----------David Parrish doubles on a line drive to center fielder Frank Diaz
--------------------Simon Pond scores
----------Brandon Chaves walks
----------Javier Guzman singles on a fly ball to right fielder Prentice Redman
--------------------David Parrish to third base
--------------------Brandon Chaves to second base
----------Offensive Substitution - Pinch hitter Brett Roneberg replaces Blaine Neal
----------Brett Roneberg singles on a ground ball to center fielder Frank Diaz
--------------------David Parrish scores
--------------------Brandon Chaves scores
--------------------Javier Guzman scores - on error/throw
--------------------Brett Roneberg to second base - on error/throw
--------------------Throwing error by second baseman Dan Dement
----------Nyjer Morgan flies out to left fielder Kory Casto
----------Brian Bixler strikes out swinging
Single to centrefield - 2 x RBI's
Left stranded at the end of the innings

Heard during the Game

(#01) During a recap of the game, the commentator mentioned - "After his hit, Brett was caught in a run down play between first and second base ...... the runner from third base then broke for home and the Senators' second-baseman threw to the catcher but the throw was off-line allowing the run to score and for Brett to reach second base safely"

Email from Brett

It's twelve-noon here and I feel a lot better!!
Still not sure if I am going to play today - but I will be available unless they say no
I will tell them I am ready to play as I do feel okay

Game Reports

The Altoona Curve started the second leg of their road trip with a 10-4 victory over the Harrisburg Senators at Commerce Bank Park on Tuesday night

The Curve broke open what had been a close game, with a four-run eighth inning, capped by a bases-loaded pinch-hit single by Brett Roneberg

The Curve offense was aided by five Harrisburg defensive errors that led to four unearned runs

Altoona has now won four straight against their intrastate rivals and are now just 2-1/2 games out of first place in the Southern Division

Brian Bixler got the Curve (62-44) on the scoreboard early with a solo home run in the first inning
The shortstop finished the game 1-for-5 with two runs scored

Altoona would add two more runs in the third inning and put the game out of reach with four tallies in the eighth and another three in the ninth

Landon Jacobsen (12-7) earned his third victory of 2006 against Harrisburg (52-57) and league-leading twelfth win overall
The right-hander lasted six innings and allowed just two runs on five hits while fanning three
Jacobsen has now won four straight decisions and seven of his last nine starts overall

Altoona’s eighth-inning rally began with one-out walks by Simon Pond and Brandon Chaves sandwiched around a Dave Parrish double
Following a single by Javier Guzman to load the bases, Roneberg was brought off the bench to hit for the pitcher and singled home two runs
A third runner was plated when the Senators’ Dan Dement’s relay throw was wild, the fourth and final error charged to Harrisburg

The Curve’s final three runs in the ninth inning were made possible by a single by Guzman and three walks, a fielding error, a hit by pitch and a wild pitch

Guzman finished the game 3-for-4 with a run and an RBI, his team-leading thirty-second multi-hit game of the year

The Senators would answer with two runs in both the sixth and eighth innings, but could not avoid losing their ninth straight game and dropping 10-1/2 games out of playoff contention

Harrisburg starter David Maust (5-9) allowed just one earned run on two hits over six innings of work, but was still saddled with the loss

The Curve and Senators continue their three-game series on Wednesday night from Commerce Bank Park at 7.05pm
Mike Connolly starts for the Curve against Beltran Perez for the Senators

Landon Jacobsen pitched six strong innings, leading visiting Altoona past Harrisburg, 10-4, on Tuesday

Jacobsen (12-7) allowed two runs on five hits, struck out three and walked two en route to his Eastern League-leading twelfth win
It was the 27-year-old right-hander's fourth straight victory

Javier Guzman went 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored and Brian Bixler blasted his third home run and scored twice for the Curve (62-44)

David Parrish doubled, walked twice and scored two runs

Harrisburg starter David Maust (5-9) took the loss, allowing three runs - one earned - on two hits and a walk while striking out six in six frames

Dan Dement went 2-for-3 with two RBIs and Kory Casto blasted his seventeenth homer, a two-run shot, for the Senators (52-57), who have lost nine straight and eleven of twelve

David Maust probably deserved better than taking his ninth loss of the season last night
The Harrisburg lefty tossed six solid innings of two-hit ball with six strikeouts, only one free pass and a hit batsman
But, when Maust departed, the Senators still trailed Altoona by a run in front of 3,749 Eastern League baseball fans at Commerce Bank Park on City Island

Five errors, three of those in the third inning alone, and major struggles by the bullpen in the final two innings allowed the Curve to steamroll the Senators 10-4 in a game where each team finished with seven hits

It was the ninth consecutive setback for Harrisburg (52-57), and the eleventh loss in the Senators' last twelve outings

"David pitched well
He also pitched well his last game" Senators skipper John Stearns said
"We had a meltdown in the third inning where we made three errors and they scored twice without a hit
One of the errors was Maust's on an easy throw to first
But we've got to do a better job defensively
It could have been a different game without that third inning"

When you've dropped eight straight, falling behind 3-0 when you've surrendered only one hit certainly doesn't help the cause

Maust, Josh Whitesell and Dan DeMent registered miscues in that critical third
Altoona (62-44) scored those two runs without hitting a single ball out of the infield

DeMent, one of the better second basemen in the league, had three of the five errors
Even with this nightmare game, he has only ten for the season

In the fifth, DeMent put his third-inning error in the rearview mirror by ripping a two-out, two-run double that banged off the fence in center to halt the Senators' twenty-four inning scoreless streak and pull the home team to within a run, 3-2

It stayed a one-run game until the top of the eighth, when the Curve parlayed a pair of walks by Devin Perrin and three hits into four runs to grab a 7-2 cushion

Kory Casto's two-run, opposite-field home run in the bottom of the eighth sliced the deficit to 7-4

Chris Thompson, recalled from Potomac yesterday, had big-time trouble finding the plate in the ninth
He walked three, including relief pitcher Chris Hernandez on four pitches, and hit a batter
The final damage was three runs on a single hit

In the third and ninth innings combined, Altoona scored five runs on just a single hit and was aided by four Senators errors

"I told these kids we have thirty games left and they have to compete" Stearns said
"The way we've been playing is not acceptable
We have to finish this season and be respectable
Plus, we are playing the best teams during this downward spiral
That's not an excuse, but these are some very good teams
And we are just not playing baseball
We had a pretty good first half
We have thirty games left to see that all doesn't go to waste"

Notes
Harrisburg lost Tim Raines Jr. and Danny Reuckel yesterday when the tandem was promoted to Class AAA New Orleans
Thompson and Cristian Guerrero were pulled up from Potomac to fill the holes
Raines hit .297 in 58 games with the Senators
Melvin Dorta left the game with a strained hamstring after the second inning and was called day-to-day by Stearns
Altoona is 49-0 when leading after seven innings
Harrisburg was seven games above .500 on July 1
After last night's loss, the Senators sit five games below the break-even plateau
They are only 9-21 in their last thirty games

The Curve will have to share some of the credit for Tuesday night’s win with their opponents

Altoona took advantage of five Harrisburg errors to cruise to a comfortable 10-4 win at Commerce Bank Park

The Senators miscues led to four unearned runs, while Harrisburg also surrendered another run on a wild pitch

Curve starter Landon Jacobsen (12-7) benefited from the Senators’ sloppy play to become the Eastern League’s first twelve game winner
The right-hander allowed two runs on five hits and two walks in six innings, striking out three

Altoona led, 1-0, entering the third inning and padded their lead with two more runs without recording a single hit in the frame
Nyjer Morgan reached base when his one-out grounder ricocheted off the Harrisburg first baseman’s shoulder for the first of its three errors in the inning
Brian Bixler followed with a comebacker to Senators starter David Maust
Maust’s throw sailed over his first baseman’s head, though, and Altoona had runners on the corners
With the infield in, Vic Buttler rolled a routine grounder to the second baseman, Dan Dement
Dement’s decision to throw home backfired when Morgan slid in under the tag to give the Curve a 2-0 lead
Bixler advanced to third on the play and scored when Dement subsequently mishandled his catcher’s throw on Buttler’s stolen-base attempt

Altoona blasted a close game open with four runs in the eighth inning, aided in part by Dement’s second error
Harrisburg caught Brett Roneberg in a rundown between first and second after Roneberg had delivered a pinch-hit, two-run single to extend the Curve lead to 7-2
With a runner breaking for home plate on the play, Dement decided to sling the ball home, but his throw did not arrive in time and the runner was safe at home

Altoona (Double-A, 62-44) won, 10-4, at Harrisburg (Nationals)

Second baseman Javier Guzman went 3 for 4 with a double, one RBI and a run scored

Brett Roneberg had a pinch-hit, two-run single in the eighth

Right-hander Landon Jacobsen (12-7) allowed two runs on five hits in six innings

On Tuesday night the Senators returned home to take on the Altoona Curve in front of 3,749 fans, but the familiar surroundings of Commerce Bank Park didn't help as the Sens fell 10-4

David Maust started for the Senators and pitched six strong innings
Maust allowed three runs, but just one earned, striking out six and allowing only two hits

Maust picked up the though luck loss while Curve starter Landon Jacobsen beat the Sens for the third time this season and improved to a league leading 12-7

The Curve jumped to a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a home run by Brian Bixler

Then they tacked on two runs in the third inning when the Senators committed three errors in the frame

Trailing 3-0 in the bottom of the fifth inning, and having gone twenty-four innings without scoring a run, the Senators scored twice on a booming two-run double off the bat of Dan DeMent to cut the lead to 3-2

But the Senators bullpen couldn't hold Altoona, and the Senators defense committed two more errors in the late innings and the Curve scored four in the eighth and three more in the ninth to put the game away

After the Curve scored four in the eighth to move ahead 7-2, Kory Casto hit his seventeenth home run of the year, a two-run shot, to cut the lead to 7-4

The two teams play game two of their three-game series on Wednesday night at Commerce Bank Park beginning at 6.35pm

The game can be heard on 1460 The Ticket and through the Senators website beginning at 6.20pm