Brian O’Connor and Brad Guy combined on a three-hit shutout as the Altoona Curve defeated the Binghamton Mets, 4-0 Thursday before 3,224 at NYSEG Stadium.
\nO’Connor (2-5) twirled seven scoreless innings, allowing only two hits in posting the win. The lefty walked five and struck out four in snapping a personal three-game losing streak. Guy finished up the Curve’s sixth shutout of the campaign with two scoreless frames of relief.
\nThe win snapped a three-game slide for Altoona (47-48). Binghamton (48-47) had its four-game winning streak snapped.
\nAltoona scored all four of the game’s runs in the third inning against Binghamton starter Joey Cole (0-1). An RBI single by Kevin Sefcik and a two-run homer by Shawn Garrett were the key blows in the inning.
\nSefcik’s single extended his hitting streak to 13 games and his on-base string to 18 games.
\nThe Curve finished its eight-game road trip with a 2-6 record. The club returns to Blair County Ballpark Friday to open a seven-game, six-day homestand against the Bowie Baysox. In a duel of right-handers, the Curve sends Justin Reid (8-5, 3.90) against the Baysox Mike Paradis (4-10, 5.40).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brian O’Connor and Brad Guy combined on a three-hit shutout as the Altoona Curve defeated the Binghamton Mets, 4-0 Thursday before 3,224 at NYSEG Stadium. O’Connor (2-5) twirled seven scoreless innings, allowing only two hits in posting the win. The lefty walked five and struck out four in snapping a personal three-game losing streak. Guy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}