Jordany Valdespin paced all hitters with a 3-for-6 performance with two RBI, but Binghamton fell 6-5 in 12 innings to Altoona Friday night at NYSEG Stadium. The contest, which took 4-hours, 23-minutes to complete, was the longest of the season for the B-Mets in duration. Miles Durham provided the winning blow with an RBI single past first baseman Luke Montz off lefty Eric Niesen, which plated Josh Harrison, who led off the 12th with a single. Niesen had intentionally walked Hector Gimenez to get to Durham. Binghamton (60-63) got the tying and winning runs on base in the bottom of the frame against Michael Dubee, but failed to plate either as Jon Malo lined out to second to end the marathon affair. Dubee worked the final two innings in scoreless fashion for his fifth win of the year. Altoona (72-52) struck first in the third inning against starter Robert Carson. Jose de los Santos led off with a bunt single and proceeded to steal second and third. After Carson walked Chase d’Arnaud, Harrison blooped a single into center, plating de los Santos. With runners at first and second and two outs, Matt Hague added to the scoring with an RBI single. Gimenez capped the frame with a two-run double to deep center, giving the Curve a 4-0 cushion. The B-Mets responded in short order. Carson led off the third against Altoona starter Justin Wilson and reached on a passed ball after striking out swinging. Wilson then walked Jose Coronado leading to Valdespin, who uncorked a double to right, scoring Carson. With runners at second and third, Josh Satin lifted a sac fly to left, chasing home Coronado. Zach Lutz put the final touch on the frame with a hard groundball to third that went through the wickets of Harrison, allowing Valdespin to score, trimming the lead to one, 4-3. Carson worked six innings and allowed four runs on six hits in a no-decision and Wilson threw just five innings, but limited the B-Mets to one hit with seven strikeouts. The B-Mets rallied to tie in the seventh after both starters had departed. Salomon Manriquez pinch-hit for Carson to start the seventh and laced a single to left. Yung-Chi Chen made an errant throw returning the ball to the infield, which allowed Manriquez to advance to second. Coronado sacrificed him up to third and Valdespin plated the runner with a clean single to right through a drawn-in infield, evening the score, 4-4. The Curve wrested the lead back in the eighth courtesy of a comedy of errors. With one out, reliever Manuel Alvarez walked Jordy Mercer. Early in Matt Hague’s plate appearance, Mercer took off for second. Montz, then the catcher, shorted the throw and it skipped away from Valdespin into centerfield. Mercer elected to try for third on the throw. Centerfielder Jon Malo picked up the misguided ball and fired to third trying to catch Mercer, but threw it into the third base dugout, allowing Mercer to score the go-ahead run, 5-4. Binghamton would tie the game again in the eighth. Eric Campbell ripped a single off reliever Jared Hughes to start the frame. After Montz popped out to short, Hughes was pulled in favor of Anthony Claggett. On Claggett’s first pitch to Brahiam Maldonado, the Puerto Rican slugger smashed a double into the left-field corner, pushing Campbell up to third. Clagget got ahead of the next hitter, Malo, 0-2, but missed the mark entirely on the next pitch, allowing Campbell to tally the tying run on a wild pitch. Maldonado’s eighth-inning double extended his hitting streak to 11 games. However, Satin’s 10-game hitting streak came to an end with an 0-for-3 showing.
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