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Tuesday 12th June 2007

Blair County Ballpark - game against the New Britain Rock Cats

Ballpark Dimensions
----------Leftfield - 325 feet
----------Left-centrefield - 365 feet
----------Centrefield - 405 feet
----------Right-centrefield - 375 feet
----------Rightfield - 325 feet
----------Fence Height (left-field corner) - 16 feet
----------Leftfield Fence Height (in front of Outfield Reserved Bleachers) - 6 feet
----------Outfield Fence Height - 8 feet
----------Centrefield Fence Height - 16 feet

Righthanded pitcher - Tristan Crawford

Date of Birth - 22nd July 1982
Height - 6' 2"
Weight - 200lbs
College Experience - Browns Plaines High School, Australia
Bats - Right
Throws - Right
Resides - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Career Details
How obtained - Signed as non-drafted free agent, May 15, 2000
Non-roster invitee to Major League Spring Training in 2007
2006 Season
Spent entire season with Rock Cats and led club with 46 appearances and was third in strikeouts
Fanned 97 batters in 98.1 innings and held opponents to a .238 batting average
Went 3-1 with a 1.48 ERA in 11 games in August
Struck out Gary Sheffield on his MLB rehab assignment, May 22
Did not allow a single run in four straight appearances, July 27-August 5 (8.1 IP)
Earned back-to-back wins twice, April 19-24 & August 5-8
Tossed 4.0 scoreless innings allowing just one hit and striking out six May 6 vs. Portland
Allowed one run in six appearances (7.1 innings) from June 11-24
In an eight game stretch from July 27-August 15, went 2-0 with a 0.53 ERA (17.0 ip, 1 er) and struck out 14
Made starts in his last two appearances
In his first start August 31 tossed 5.0 scoreless innings and struck out five

First plate appearance of the game

Bases empty - two down

Ball - low and inside ......and then......

"The pitcher delivers the 1ball-0strike pitch and Brett drives that ball deep into right-centrefield!!!"
"The fielders cannot catch up to it"
"It one hops the wall and Roneberg is in at second base with a two out double"
"NO!!! ... Brett is being waved around ... it's a home run!!!"
"The third base umpire went out on the hit and made a clear signal that that ball was out of the park"
"There is a secondary wall behind the fence in that section of the park and it must have hit that and bounced back into the field"
"The Rock Cats' outfielders are not making any protests so it was a great call by the umpire"
"From up here it looked like it one hopped the wall"
"Brett is coming around to score on his fourth home run of the season!!!"
"The Curve now have a 1-0 lead here early in the ballgame during the bottom of the first innings"

HOME RUN - 1 x RBI and 1 x R

Third plate appearance of the game

Runner at second base - two down

Ball - breaking ball - inside
Called strike
Ball - slider - down and in
Ball - fast ball - down and in
Foul ball ......and then......

"Here comes the 2out-3ball-2strike pitch"
"Brett gets hold of that and drives it high and hard into straightaway rightfield!!!"
"It's outa here!!! ... and the ball is bouncing around in Lakemont Park out behind the rightfield fence"
"Brett now has his second home run of the night and this one was a two run shot to add to his solo effort back in the first innings!!!"
"Tonight Brett has hit his fourth and fifth home runs of the season!!!"

HOME RUN - 2 x RBI's and 1 x R

#01
Altoona lost electricity but still had plenty of power as Brett Roneberg and Steven Pearce smacked two homers apiece in a 13-3 rout of visiting New Britain on Tuesday
Roneberg ripped a solo blast in the first inning and a two-run shot in the fourth, when the Curve tallied three times for a 9-0 lead
He has five dingers this year
Pearce, who has hit in 10 straight games, belted his fifth, a three-run shot in the third, and went back-to-back with Roneberg in the fourth
They drove in four runs apiece

#02
Brett Roneberg and Steven Pearce each hit a pair of home runs as the Curve tied the franchise record by belting five in the ballgame
Roneberg started the onslaught with two outs in the first inning, sending a solo home run over the wall in right-center field to give the Curve a 1-0 lead
Roneberg and Pearce hit back-to-back home runs off of Crawford in the fourth inning
Roneberg's came with Bowers aboard to bring the count to 9-0

#03
Shortly after 8:45 p.m. on Tuesday, a thunder and lightning show officially rolled in
By that point, the 3,832 fans at Blair County Ballpark had already witnessed a similar outburst for nearly two hours
The Curve tied a franchise record with five homers, and Yoslan Herrera had his best start of the season in a 13-3 laugher
Steven Pearce and Brett Roneberg each hit a pair of homers, while Jason Bowers also mashed one in Altoona’s 18-hit attack
Crawford had shut down Altoona’s offense just a week ago, tossing four-hit ball and yielding one run over seven innings
It did not take long for Altoona to get to Crawford (6-4) this time
He fanned Bowers and Andrew McCutchen on six pitches to start the game before the Curve teed off:-
(#1) First up was Roneberg, whose long ball hit off a small green wall above the fence in right-center
He stopped at second - thinking, like many onlookers, he had a double - before rounding the bases for a 1-0 first-inning lead
(#2) Bowers crushed a solo shot down the left field line in the fourth to put the Curve up, 3-0
(#3) Pearce blistered the first pitch he saw in the third for a three-run homer to make it 6-0
(#4) Roneberg’s second blast removed any doubt
He hit a towering, two-run fourth-inning shot to put his squad up, 8-0
(#5) Pearce launched a flat offering to left-center in the fourth to take a 9-0 lead
Pearce and Roneberg, who each had three hits and drove in four, became the second and third Curve players this season to hit two homers in a game (Neil Walker the other)
‘‘Oh man, a blowout’s always fun for everybody’’ Roneberg said
‘‘You have a good time’’

#04
Tristan Crawford allowed 11 hits and nine runs in 3-2/3 innings as the New Britain Rock Cats lost 13-3 to the Altoona Curve Tuesday in Altoona, Pa
Crawford (6-4) gave up five home runs, including two each to Brett Roneberg and Steven Pearce
Roneberg and Pearce were both 3-for-5 with four RBI

#05
Cuban defector Yoslan Herrera pitched six strong innings to earn his first professional win and designated hitter Brett Roneberg and first baseman Steven Pearce each homered twice as the Altoona Curve defeated New Britain 13-3 Tuesday at Blair County Ballpark
Pearce and Roneberg both went 3-for-5, scored three runs and recorded four RBIs

#06
Designated hitter Brett Roneberg went 3 for 5 with two home runs and four RBI

Click on this image----to see fourteen photos taken as Brett hit #1

and click on this image----to see sixteen photos as Brett hit #2