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The Result
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The Curve - Year-to-Date
47 wins and 45
losses
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Jason Delaney and Adam Boeve eached clubbed
two solo home runs to help power the Curve to a 10-5 victory over
the Bowie Baysox in game one of a three-game series at Blair County
Ballpark on Monday night
Delaney homered in his first two at-bats, including leading off
the second inning to give the Curve a 1-0 lead
The Baysox responded to Delaney's first homer with a three-run
blast of their own in the fourth inning
Jason Roach, making a spot-start for the Curve, permitted back-to-back
singles to Oscar Salazar and Luis Jimenez with one out
Jeff Fiorentino followed with a drive over the right field wall
to give Bowie the lead, 3-1
That lead vanished in the bottom of the inning
Steven Pearce led off the inning with a single off of Bowie starter
Chris Waters
Boeve followed with his first blast of the night, a towering drive
to left field to level the game, 3-3
Delaney went back-to-back with Boeve when he took Waters out to
left field again for the Curve lead
Waters got the first two outs of the inning, but Taber Lee sparked
the rally again with a double
Jason Bowers followed with a double to score Lee and put the Curve
in front 5-3
Vic Buttler singled in Bowers for a three-run lead before Waters
departed the game and the inning ended
Delaney took a shot at history in the fifth
With Sendy Rleal on in relief, Delaney belted a ball that appeared
headed for the bleachers in left, but banged off the wall a foot
short for a double
Delaney would have been the first ever player in Curve history
to hit three home runs in history
He did score a batter later on a Dave Parrish single for a 7-3
Altoona lead
The Baysox got a lone run back in both the sixth and seventh innings
to close within 7-5, but the Curve blew it open in the eighth
Buttler led off with a triple and came in on a Walker single
Walker stole second and advanced to third on a throwing error
Pearce sent a sacrifice fly to center field to score Walker
Boeve capped the scoring with his second home run of the night,
this time off of reliever Rommie Lewis
It marked the second
time this season that two Curve hitters had clubbed two home runs
in the same game
Pearce and Brett Roneberg each hit two against the New Britain
Rock Cats on June 12th also at Blair County Ballpark
Boeve learned that he had been promoted back to Triple-A Indianapolis
after the ballgame
Romulo Sanchez (4-2) threw the final three innings of the ballgame
Due to the fact that Roach had left the game one out shy of being
eligible for the win, he was awarded his fourth win
Waters (4-8) was tagged with his eighth loss of the year as the
Curve won for just the fourth time in 12 ballgames with the Baysox
at BCB this season
Altoona will look for the series win on Tuesday night at 7.05pm
LHP Josh Shortslef (2-9, 4.29) will start for the Curve against
RHP Fredy Deza (3-7, 5.45) for the Baysox
Adam Boeve may never wear a Curve uniform again,
and if not, he’ll always have one fantastic final memory
of his time in Altoona
Boeve crushed a two-run homer in the fourth inning Monday night
against Bowie, then got a great surprise prior to his at-bat in
the eighth
‘‘I went up to him’’ manager Tim Leiper recalled
‘‘and said ‘By the way, you’re going to Triple-A
Indianapolis tomorrow and this is your last at-bat for the Curve’’’
So what did Boeve do?
He roped a first-pitch fastball over the wall in left for his
second homer of the night and a grand sendoff
‘‘It was awesome’’ Leiper said
Jason Delaney also homered twice and barely missed becoming the
first Curve player ever with three long balls in one game
The power surge carried Altoona to a 10-5 win over Bowie before
4,635 fans at Blair County Ballpark
Boeve had little left to prove in Double-A and leaves as the Curve’s
leader with 14 homers this season
It may have been 13 without some prodding from his manager
‘‘Leiper told me that I’m going to Indy, and he’s
like ’Are you going to sit on your one home run all night?’’’
Boeve said with a smile as he packed his bags at his locker
‘‘He said, ’You’ve got one at-bat left,’
and then he was kind of laughing when I came up to the box’’
Hitters almost never swing for the fences, and Boeve didn’t
have that in mind when he stepped to the plate for his final at-bat
‘‘No, definitely not’’ he said
‘‘I went up there just looking for a pitch, something
out over the plate early and was able to get a fastball up in
the zone first pitch’’
Boeve, batting .295 with 47 RBIs, departs the Curve for the second
time in two weeks
He was promoted to Indianapolis on July 2 but stayed only seven
games, and he could be gone for good this time
‘‘I’m definitely happy to be going back to Triple-A’’
Boeve said
‘‘I was a little surprised returning to the Curve
I didn’t know the first time I went up if it was short-term
or long-term’’
Boeve’s intriguing sendoff was the final Curve highlight
Monday, but it was far from the only one
Delaney provided most of the rest
The Double-A newcomer led off the second inning with a homer and
followed Boeve’s blast in the fourth with another
The second one gave the Curve the lead for good, 4-3, and they
tacked on two more runs in the frame to start pulling away
Delaney just missed making Curve history a little later when he
led off the fifth
He smoked a towering shot to left field that, at first, looked
like it would be long gone
No one - not even Brad Eldred, Adam Hyzdu or Josh Bonifay - has
ever hit three homers in one game for the Curve
Delaney’s high flyball started drifting left toward the foul
line, and history eluded him as it landed at the base of the wall
in the nook of the left field corner
‘‘I thought it was pretty close’’ Delaney
said
‘‘I stood at the plate because I thought I might have
hooked it foul
I got it off the end of the bat
As I started jogging, I saw it was heading for that little corner
there
I guess a foot further right and maybe it would have been another
home run’’
Delaney hit .340 with Single-A Lynchburg, leading the Carolina
League, before joining the Curve on June 27
He had shown great patience at the plate so far in Double-A, drawing
15 walks in 17 games, but entered Monday’s contest hitting
only .212
If Delaney was lacking for confidence, he’s certainly not
anymore after a 4-for-4 night with two homers, a double and three
runs
The big game just happened to coincide with a Delaney poster giveaway
in Monday’s Mirror
‘‘Maybe that’s all the confidence I needed right
there’’ Delaney joked of the poster
Romulo Sanchez (4-2) worked three scoreless innings of relief
to earn the win, while Bowie starter Chris Waters (4-8) gave up
six runs in 3-2/3 innings for the loss
Reliever Jason Roach made a spot start for the Curve and allowed
three runs in 4-2/3 innings, getting lifted one out before qualifying
for the victory
Altoona has won three in a row and is looking for a rare extended
winning streak with two more games left on this homestand
‘‘Like I said two months ago, I felt like we were about
to go on that 10-game winning streak, and we just haven’t
done it yet’’ Roach said
‘‘But it could happen at any time’’