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The Altoona Curve will close out the home portion of their 2007 season with an eight game homestand comprised of two four game series

Altoona will take on the:-
------------Harrisburg Senators - Thursday August 23rd to Sunday August 26th, and the
------------Reading Phillies - Monday August 27th to Thursday August 30th

The Result
Senators - 6 runs to 5

The Curve - Year-to-Date
66 wins and 63 losses

Brett's Position and the Batting Order
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---------------Entered the game as a pinch hitter during the bottom of the seventh innings

Brett's at-bats
First plate appearance
Righthanded pitcher
Called on to pinch hit!!!
Bottom of the seventh innings!!!
The Curve are trailing three runs to four!!!
The tying run is standing at second base!!!
And there is one down!!!
......and now click on the "PLAY" button

Fly ball "hit pretty well" out into leftfield ...... out F7 ...... and the runner could not advance
The audio file includes the hitter before Brett as the pinch hitting role was discussed during this player's at-bat
Also, after Brett is announced, the commentator mentions Brett's statistics as a pinch hitter ...... which are pretty good!!!

At the end of the Game
0 hit from 1 at-bats

Heard during the game

Email from Brett

Game Reports

Roger Bernadina and Frank Diaz drilled back-to-back solo home runs off of Curve closer Matt Peterson in the top of the ninth as the Harrisburg came from behind in dramatic fashion to defeat the Curve, 6-5, on Friday night at Blair County Ballpark

Peterson (4-2) took the loss on the day he was named an Eastern League All-Star

Peterson was attempting to save a ballgame for the Curve in three consecutive nights
But Bernadina led off the ninth with a home run to right field and Diaz followed by belting Peterson's first pitch into the bleachers in left field

The Curve had taken the lead to the ninth after breaking a 4-4 tie with a run in the bottom of the eighth
Javier Guzman singled home Adam Boeve to give the Curve the lead off of Senator's reliever Adam Carr
Carr had walked both Boeve and Jason Delaney to start the inning

Harrisburg however had the first and last words in the ballgame

The Senators scored twice off of Curve starter Yoslan Herrera in the first inning
Herrera started the trouble by walking Sheldon Fulse
Fulse scored as Dan Dement followed with an RBI double to give Harrisburg a 1-0 lead
Dement advanced to third on a throw that went through to the plate and scored on a sacrifice fly to center field from Brandon Powell

The Curve mounted their first comeback of the ballgame in the fourth, taking the lead with a three-run inning off of Senators' starter Jim Magrane
Delaney contributed an RBI single to score Vic Buttler and Brian Peterson delivered a two-run single to give the Curve a 3-2 lead

Momentum swung back to the Senators in the top of the fifth as they plated two runs to grab the lead right back
Dement again victimized Herrera with a two-run double and a 4-3 advantage

An RBI single by Jason Bowers tied the game at four in the seventh, before Guzman's single put the Curve back in front in the eighth

Carr (1-0) surrendered that run, but earned the win as Harrisburg rallied in the ninth

It was just the second time this year the Curve have lost a ballgame when taking the lead into the ninth inning (51-2)

Game three of the series will be contested Saturday night at 7.05pm
The Curve will send RHP Kip Bouknight (11-5, 3.63) against RHP Garrett Mock (1-4, 6.30) for the Senators

Friday night in Altoona, the Senators came from behind in the ninth inning for just the third time this season to beat the Curve 6-5

Trailing 5-4 going into the ninth inning, Roger Bernadina and Frank Diaz hit home runs on back-to-back pitches off of Eastern League All-Star relief pitcher Matt Peterson to give the Sens a 6-5 win

Adam Carr picked up his first win of the year and David Trahan his first save for the Senators pitching a scoreless ninth inning

Jim Magrane started for the Sens and went 6.2 innings allowing four runs on eight hits

Dan Dement had three hits and drove in three runs in his second game back, and Javi Herrera and Diaz both had two hits in the game

After struggling the past couple of days to score runs, the Sens scored two runs in three separate innings Friday night

Harrisburg is now 3-2 on the season ended seven-game road trip and have evened their four-game series with Altoona at a game each

Saturday night the Sens send RH Garrett Mock to the mound against former Senator RH Kip Bouknight for the Curve
Game time Saturday night is 7.05pm

The Curve are still a lot of good things, like confident, spirited, entertaining, playing hard and battling every night
They’re also still one bad thing, which they’ve been all season - frustrating
Friday night’s game against Harrisburg offered the latest in a long, long string of examples
The Curve scratched and clawed for three hours, overcoming deficits both early and late
But in about 30 seconds, their efforts were wasted
Harrisburg hit solo homers on back-to-back pitches in the ninth inning off the Eastern League’s best closer to slap Altoona with a 6-5 loss before 7,546 fans at Blair County Ballpark

‘‘It’s awful’’ manager Tim Leiper said of losing a game that way

The Curve grabbed a 5-4 lead in the eighth inning as Javier Guzman singled home Adam Boeve

They appeared to be in good shape as Matt Peterson, who earlier in the day was named the reliever on the Eastern League All-Star team, took the mound in the ninth looking for his 26th save

‘‘We got the right guy in the right spot out there’’ Leiper said
‘‘He’s done the job for us all year’’

Not this time

Roger Bernadina led off the ninth and ripped a 2-1 pitch from Peterson (4-2) over the wall in right to tie it up
Peterson’s next pitch then was launched out to left by Frank Diaz for the game winner

‘‘It’s just the location of the pitches’’ Leiper said
‘‘They’re going to be swinging, and he just happened to put them in spots where they were swinging to’’

The Curve’s scant playoff hopes got only marginally worse as they lost a half game to second-place Akron in the Southern Division
The Aeros split a doubleheader and lead Altoona by 6-1/2 games with 13 remaining

As frustrated as the Curve may be now, they’d never trade places with their opponent this weekend
The Senators are a mind-boggling 33 games under .500 at 49-82 and haven’t played a meaningful game all season after opening 0-6

Winning like they did Friday doesn’t make up for the law of averages, but ...
‘‘With the season we’ve had, it definitely helps out’’ said third baseman Dan DeMent, who went 3-for-5 with three RBIs

Adam Carr (1-0) won in relief for Harrisburg, while David Trahan pitched the ninth for his first save

The Senators scored twice in the first off Curve starter Yoslan Herrera, then Brian Peterson’s two-run single highlighted Altoona’s three-run fourth

DeMent’s two-run double in the fifth put Harrisburg back on top, 4-3

Jason Bowers tied it with an RBI single in the seventh before Guzman gave the Curve the lead an inning later

‘‘We just need to keep battling and put ourselves in good situations to win like we did tonight’’ Altoona first baseman Jason Delaney said
‘‘History says that the majority of the time we’re going to win those close games because we have a great guy at the back of our pen
When you have that in your corner, you’re going to win more games than you’re going to lose’’

The Curve have won more than they’ve lost, but they’ve also been frustrated by letting numerous winnable games and chances at winning streaks slip away

‘‘How much can we take?’’ Leiper asked
‘‘It don’t matter
We’ve got to be able to take it, got to be able to come back
We’ve got to keep winning
We have to win
This thing is not over yet, and we’re not playing like it’s over, either
We played our tails off tonight’’

Around the Curve
A moment of silence was held before the game for Army Spc. Michael A. Hook, an Altoona man killed in Iraq on Wednesday
Peterson’s blown save was his fifth in 30 chances
Harrisburg’s Javi Herrera was ejected for arguing a called third strike in the eighth inning