Four relievers combined to hold the Altoona Curve scoreless over the final 3 2/3 innings to hold a slim one-run lead for starter Josh Stinson, sending Binghamton past Altoona 4-3 at Blair County Ballpark Thursday. The B-Mets took the final three games of the series from the Curve to notch their seventh consecutive series victory.
Binghamton (47-40) pounced on Altoona starter Bryan Morris for three runs in the first inning. With one out, Jon Malo laced a single to left to start the rally. Sean Ratliff followed with a ground-rule double to left-center, putting both men in scoring position. Marshall Hubbard chased the first run home with an RBI groundout to second. After Morris hit Josh Satin with a pitch, D.J. Wabick chopped a single off the glove of Miles Durham at first, plating Ratliff. Mike Nickeas capped the frame with a run-scoring single through the right side, pitting the B-Mets a 3-0 lead.
Kirk Nieuwenhuis extended his hitting streak to six games in the second with an opposite-field blast to left, his 13th homer of the season, advancing the lead to four.
Altoona (53-33) responded immediately in the bottom of the stanza. Jordy Mercer led off with a double to right, Brandon Jones moved him to third with a groundout to first and Durham chased the runner home with a single, getting the Curve on the board. Anthony Norman followed and joined Durham on base with a clean single to right, putting two on with one out for the pitcher. Morris executed a perfect sacrifice bunt, upping the runners to scoring position, where Chase d’Arnaud plated them with a two-run single to right, trimming the lead to one.
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