Binghamton scored the game’s first eight runs and ripped 17 hits en route to an 11-6 wire-to-wire victory over Altoona Tuesday night at Blair County Ballpark. Kirk Nieuwenhuis led the way with a perfect 4-for-4 showing with three RBI and three runs scored.
The B-Mets tallied a run in the first for the second straight night as Nieuwenhuis led off the game with a double to right off starter Tim Alderson. Three batters later, Marshall Hubbard plated him with a single to center, making it 1-0.
Binghamton (45-40) used the long ball to stretch the lead of five in the next inning. After Salomon Manriquez singled and Nieuwenhuis walked, Sean Ratliff drove an Alderson fastball out of the yard to left-center for his seventh homer. Nick Evans followed with a solo bomb to left, his 14th, to make the lead five. It was just the second time this season that the B-Mets have hit back-to-back home runs.
The Curve finally got to Mark Cohoon in the home half of the fourth. Chase d’Arnaud worked a leadoff walk and was joined on base when Josh Harrison singled through the left side with one out. Hector Gimenez got Altoona on the board with an RBI single to left, chasing home d’Arnaud. Ratliff bobbled the ball in left, allowing Harrison to advance to third, where he scored from on Jordy Mercer’s sacrifice fly to left, cutting the Binghamton lead to 8-2.
Cohoon left after four innings and gave way to Dylan Owen, who worked a scoreless fifth before allowing the first four to face him in the sixth to reach. The Curve brought four runs across against Owen and Edgar Ramirez in the frame, all four of which were charged to Owen, bringing the game into reach for Altoona, 9-6.
Ramirez, however, settled in and worked a 1-2-3 seventh inning to quell the charging Curve. He was named the winner after tossing two innings of one-hit relief.
Derrick Ellison put the game on ice with two hitless innings of relief, tossing the eighth and the ninth for his second save.
Nieuwenhuis topped off his perfect night at the plate with a bases-loaded, two-run single in the ninth off Anthony Claggett. His first-inning double tied him for the Eastern League-lead with 24.
Ratliff finished with three hits and four RBI. Josh Satin and Manriquez also ripped three hits each in the slugfest.
Meanwhile, B-Mets starter Mark Cohoon faced the minimum over the first three innings and started the fourth inning at the plate against Alderson. Cohoon surprised the Curve with a double over the head of leftfielder Yung Chi-Chen. Nieuwenhuis singled the hurler up to third and Ratliff plated him with an infield single to third, forcing the Altoona (53-31) starter from the game. Alderson was charged with the loss after allowing a season-high eight runs over three-plus innings.
Marshall Hubbard put the finishing touches on the fourth inning with a two-run double off reliever Tony Watson, plating Nieuwenhuis and Ratliff to advance the lead to 8-0
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