The Result
Curve - 4 runs
to 2
The Curve - Year-to-Date
22 won and 13 lost
Brett's Position and
the Batting Order
Playing - Leftfield
Batting - #3
At the end of the Game
1 hit from 3 at-bats
- home run ** grand slam **, 4 x runs-batted-in,
1 x run scored, 1 x strike out
Brett's at-bats
First at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Bases empty - two down
Ball
Ball - outside
Ball - outside
"That pitch is hit into centrefield and the fielder comes
in a few steps and makes the catch for the final out of the innings"
Fly out to centrefield
- F8
Second at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
- Miguel Pinango
The bases are loaded
- and there is none down
Called strike
Ball - downstairs
Swing and a miss
"Brett gets hold of that and drives it in the air to rightfield
...... and that has got a chance!!!
...... the fielder is going back and he's at the fence
...... but it doesn't matter because that's out of here!!!
...... a grand slam home run to Roneberg!!!
...... and he is circling the bases as the Curve take a 4-0 lead
in the game!!!
...... and that's the first grand slam for the Curve this year!!!"
HOME RUN - GRAND SLAM
- 4 x RBI - 1 x R (click
here for all the details)
Third at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Bases empty - one down
Ball
Foul ball - down the leftfield line
Called strike
Foul ball - back to the screen
Swing and a miss - "and Roneberg goes down swinging for the
second out of the innings"
Strike out
Heard during the game
(#01) During the Post-game Show, it was announced that Brett's Grand Slam had been judged "The Nextel 'Walkie-Talkie' Hit of the Game"
Email from Brett
The "granny" did
feel pretty good, especially after I was down '1 ball-2 strikes'!!
Even I smiled!!
Also, a friend of mine, Ann Laird, was at the Pirates game at
PNC Park
As their game goes on, they also show highlights of their Minor
League Affiliates' games
And my grand slam was on there!!
That's not too bad either!!
Game Reports
The Altoona Curve took two games from the Binghamton
Mets in a doubleheader Friday night at Blair County Ballpark
The Curve took game one in 10 innings, scoring three runs in the
seventh inning to force extra innings, before eventually winning
7-6
In the nightcap, Brett
Roneberg’s third inning grand slam was enough offense for
Altoona, as they won 4-2
Roneberg provided all the offense Altoona needed in game two when
he hit the Curve's first grand slam of the season in the third
inning
Starter Jason Roach kept Binghamton’s bats quiet, allowing
only two runs on three hits, while striking out five and walking
none in six innings pitched
Binghamton tried to rally from the early 4-0 hole, scoring once
in the fifth on a solo home run from Michel Abreu, which was the
first hit of the game for the Mets
Another run in the sixth on a Kevin Rios RBI single trimmed the
Curve’s edge to 4-2, but Brandon Knight pitched a scoreless
seventh to close out the victory and pick up his second save of
the season
In the first game of the twinbill, the Curve needed a last inning
rally to force extra innings, after the Mets plated six runs in
the third inning to build a four run lead
Four different Curve relievers combined to pitch seven shutout
innings to close out the game, striking out nine Binghamton batters
Adam Boeve drove in Vic Buttler with a sacrifice fly in the bottom
of the 10th inning, to seal the deal in game one for the Curve
The win improved the Curve to 2-1 in extra-inning games in 2006
Buttler paced the Curve offense, going 3-for-5 with two triples
and scored three runs
The Curve bullpen pitched a total of eight innings of scoreless
relief in both games tonight
Four different relievers combined to pitch seven shutout innings
in game one and Knight came in to pitch the top of the 7th in
game two to earn his second save of the season
Chris Hernandez earned his second win of the season, pitching
the final inning of game one, striking out two
Shortslef (4-0) glided through the first two innings of game one
with ease but gave up a season high six runs in the third, forcing
an early exit
Shortslef lasted just three innings allowing six earned runs on
seven hits, with one walk and two strikeouts
The Curve opened the game with two runs in their first at-bat,
sparked by a one-out triple by Buttler
The centerfielder scored
on a fielder’s choice by Brett Roneberg, who would later
score on an RBI single by Boeve
The Mets exploded for six runs in the third inning, capped by
a three-run homerun by 3B Jay Caligiuri
All of the six runs were scored with two outs in the inning as
the Mets piled up five base hits in the frame
Mets starter Alay Soler pitched six innings, giving up three earned
runs off of four hits
The Mets top prospect was in line for his second win in two starts
with Binghamton until reliever Eddie Comacho blew a save opportunity
in the seventh
The fourth pitcher used by Binghamton, Tim McNab, fell to 1-2
on the year after allowing the game winning sacrifice fly by Boeve
The Curve and Mets will resume their series on Saturday at Blair
County Ballpark at 5.05pm
Mike Connolly will start for Altoona against Binghamton’s
Will Vasquez
The Binghamton Mets couldn’t hold a three-run
lead in Game One of their doubleheader, losing to the Altoona
Curve 7-6 in 10 innings before the Curve picked up the 4-2 victory
in the nightcap at Blair County Ballpark Friday
The B-Mets have lost three in a row
After Altoona (22-13)
jumped out to a 2-0 lead in Game One on Brett Roneberg’s
RBI fielder’s choice and Simon
Pond’s run-scoring single in the first, the B-Mets countered
with a six-run third
Kevin Rios started the rally with a leadoff single before Wilson
Batista followed with a two-out hit
Jorge Padilla then drove in Rios with a base hit and Michel Abreu
followed with a two-run double off the centerfield wall, scoring
Batista and Padilla for a 3-2 lead
After Andy Wilson walked, Jay Caligiuri cleared the bases with
a three-run shot to leftfield for a 6-2 advantage
Altoona got a run back in the third on Adam Boeve’s RBI groundout
before their three-run seventh
The inning began with three straight singles against Eddie Camacho,
including a run-scoring hit by Octavio Martinez
Ivan Maldonado then gave up a pinch-hit RBI single to Craig Stansberry
before Vic Buttler tied the game with a triple to center, scoring
Martinez to send the game into extra innings
The Curve won it on Boeve’s sacrifice fly off Tim McNab (0-2)
in the bottom of the tenth, scoring Buttler and making a winner
out of reliever Chris Hernandez (2-1)
In Game Two, Miguel
Pinango (0-3) allowed four straight hits to begin the third, the
last of which was a grand slam by Brett Roneberg
Binghamton (16-19) got a run back on Abreu’s homer leading
off the fifth, Binghamton’s first hit off Jason Roach (4-2)
They pulled within two in the sixth when Batista reached on a
pinch-hit double, moved to third on Jonathan Slack’s groundout
and scored on Rios’s single
Brandon Knight worked around a leadoff single in the seventh,
picking up his second save
Saturday, the B-Mets play the third game of their four-game series
with Altoona
Will Vazquez (0-1, 8.10) starts for Binghamton against Altoona
lefthander Mike Connolly (2-3, 5.82)
Game time is 5.05pm from Blair County Ballpark with the Horizons
Federal Credit Union Pre-Game Show kicking off the broadcast at
4.50pm on Newsradio 1290 WNBF
Vic Buttler has had more hits in a game, notching
four against Reading last Sunday, but he arguably made his biggest
impact of the season Friday night in the first game of a doubleheader
against Binghamton
Buttler went 3-for-5 with two triples, a double, an RBI and scored
three runs, including the winning run in the Curve’s come-from-behind
7-6 10-inning victory
Jason Roach’s three-hit
pitching and Brett Roneberg’s grand slam gave the Curve a
4-2 win in the second game to earn a doubleheader sweep of the
Mets before 5,042 at Blair County Ballpark
“Basically we just never quit” said Buttler, who went
1-for-3 in the second game
“We always know we have a very strong lineup from top to
bottom, and we just continue to swing the bats
We have that no-quit attitude”
“Guys just don’t panic” Curve manager Tim Leiper
said
“They have a real strong sense of what kind of players they
are
If they get down, they feel like they can come back
And the nice thing is, the more times we do it, now they start
to know and they feel like they can do it all the time”
The Curve (22-13) held a 3-2 lead in the first game thanks to
an RBI single by Simon Pond, an
RBI fielder’s choice by Brett Roneberg
and an RBI groundout by Adam Boeve
But then the Mets (16-19) erupted for six third-inning runs off
of Josh Shortslef, who was 4-0 heading into the game
After Shortslef retired two of the first three batters, five straight
Mets reached base, including an RBI infield single by Jorge Padilla
and a two-run double by Michel Abreu before the big hit
Jay Caligiuri gave the Mets a 6-2 lead with a three-run home run
that nearly made it over the left field bleachers
The Curve, however, responded when Mets starter Alay Soler, a
Cuban defector who gave up four hits in six innings, left the
game
They greeted relievers Eddie Camacho and Ivan Maldanado with four
straight singles, including RBI hits by Octavio Martinez and pinch-hitter
Craig Stansberry to pull the Curve to within one
Javier Guzman hit into a double play, but Buttler, whose two triples
were the most by a Curve batter this season, tripled to right-center
to chase Martinez home to tie the game
Roneberg lined out to
left field to end the threat
Neither team threatened until the bottom of the 10th, when the
Curve completed the rally
With Butler on first
after a fielder’s choice, Roneberg singled on a one-out Tim
McNab offering to put runners on the corners
Boeve then chased Buttler home with a sacrifice fly to right field
“Everybody’s loose in the clubhouse afterwards”
Buttler said of winning the first game
“We’ve got a little momentum rolling and we just take
it out into the second game”
Everybody knows that
that Roneberg can hit, getting hits in 16 of the 17 games he’s
played with the Curve, but the Aussie also showed in the second
game he has some power
After Roach, Guzman and Buttler began the bottom of the third
with singles to load the bases, Roneberg hammered a Miguel Pinango
1-2 offering over the right-center field fence for a grand slam
It was the first grand slam by a Curve batter this season
“I’m just trying to make sure I get one run in at least”
said Roneberg, who thought that might have been his first grand
slam ever
“You don’t want to strike out with the bases loaded
or hit into a double play
I was trying to get one in, and I managed to get a few more than
that”
Abreu broke up Roach’s no-hitter when he led off the fifth
with a home run to right
The Mets added another run in the sixth when Wilson Battista hit
a ground-rule double to left-center and scored on a Kevin Rios
single to left
Roach gave up only three hits while striking out six and walking
none in six innings
Brandon Knight relieved him in the seventh and earned his second
save
“It’s always
hard to sweep a doubleheader” Roneberg said, “so it
was nice to get that buffer with Roach just dealing out there”
Brett Roneberg's third-inning
grand slam was the decisive blow as Altoona claimed a 4-2 victory
in Game 2 Friday night that made for a sweep of the Binghamton
Mets in the Eastern League
Adam Boeve's 10th-inning sacrifice fly scored Vic Buttler with
the winning run for a 7-6 Altoona victory in the opener
Both were scheduled as seven-inning games
Game 1 marked the Mets' six one-run game in their most recent
seven
All of Binghamton's scoring in a six-run third inning came with
two out
Buttler reached in the 10th on a fielder's choice against Tim
McNab (0-2) and took
third on Brett Roneberg's base hit
Chris Hernandez pitched a scoreless ninth for the victory, improving
to a 2-1 record
The Mets took a 6-2 lead with six third-inning runs
Jorge Padilla had an RBI single, Michel Abreu doubled in two runs
and Jay Caligiuri hit a three-run home run, his sixth homer of
the year
The Curve pulled even with a three-run seventh, the tying run
coming home on a triple by Buttler, who was 3-for-5 in the game
Mets starter Alay Soler surrendered three runs on four hits in
six innings
He struck out five and walked one in his second start since being
promoted from Single-A St. Lucie
In Game 2, Mets starter
Miguel Pinango (0-3) gave up four consecutive hits to start the
third inning - the last of which was Roneberg's shot to right-center
field, his fourth home run of the season
Pinango proceeded to retire nine of the last 10 batters he faced
Five of the seven hits he allowed came in the third inning
The Mets scored in the fifth with a leadoff home run by Abreu,
and in the sixth on Kevin Rios' RBI single
Friday's double-header at Blair County Ballpark came about as
result of Thursday's postponement because of rain
The Curve took the field for the opener with a league-leading
157 runs scored, but had dropped seven of its most recent nine
games - the slide following 18 wins in 26 starts
Adam Boeve lifted a sacrifice
fly in the 10th inning to put Altoona past visiting Binghamton,
7-6, in Friday's doubleheader opener
Vic Buttler reached on a fielder's choice against reliever Timothy
McNab (0-2) and moved
to third on a single by Brett Roneberg, setting up Boeve's game-winner for the Curve (21-13)
Chris Hernandez (2-1) picked up the win, holding the Mets (16-18)
scoreless in the 10th
Trailing 2-0 in the third, Binghamton scored six times as Jorge
Padilla delivered an RBI single, Michel Abreu ripped a two-run
double and Jay Caligiuri slugged a three-run homer
Eddie Camacho relieved Mets starter Alay Soler in the seventh
and gave up consecutive singles to Rafael Alvarez, Taber Lee and
Octavio Martinez to make the score 6-4
Camacho was pulled for Ivan Maldonado, who gave up a run-scoring
single to Craig Stansberry
After a double play, Buttler blasted an RBI triple - part of a
3-for-5 performance - to knot the game
Soler allowed three runs on four hits over six innings
He struck out five and walked one in his second game since being
called up from Class A Advanced St. Lucie, where he had a 0.64
ERA in 28 innings
Altoona starter Josh Shortslef surrendered six runs on seven hits
over three innings
Brett Roneberg smashed a
grand slam to lift Altoona to a 4-2 win and a doubleheader sweep
of visiting Binghamton on Friday
Jason Roach, Javier Guzman and Vic Buttler hit consecutive singles
in the third inning off Mets starter Miguel Pinango (0-3) before
Roneberg launched a shot over the center-field wall for his fourth
homer and a 4-0 lead
Roneberg has six RBIs in his last three games after driving in
eight runs in his first 14 contests
Starter Jason Roach (4-2) allowed two runs on three hits over
six innings for the Curve (22-13)
He struck out five without walking a batter and has a 1.79 ERA
in seven starts
Brandon Knight picked up his second save by throwing a scoreless
seventh
Michael Abreu hit a solo homer in the fifth for the Mets (16-19)
and Kevin Rios singled home Wilson Batista in the sixth
Pinango allowed four runs on seven hits over five innings and
fanned three without walking a batter
