SENATORS GAME RECAP

The Senators used a tried and true baseball formula of scoring early and late to defeat the Altoona Curve 6-2 at Blair County Ballpark on Tuesday night. Marco Estrada pitched six quality innings for his second win of the season.

Harrisburg scored four of the six runs in uncoventional fashion as they scored one on a bases loaded walk; two on sacrifice flies and one on an rbi groundout. The only "conventional" runs scored on a two-run home run by Luis Jiminez in the eighth inning to make the score 6-1 Sens.

The Sens scored two in the first for a 2-0 lead, then tacked on another in the second for a 3-0 lead. Meanwhile Marco Estrada was pitching well, with only former Senator Melvin Dorta doing any damage. Dorta singled and scored the Curve's first run in the fourth, then tripled and scored the second Curve run in the eighth.

Estrada allowed just four hits and one run in his six innings. Steven Schmoll pitched two effective innings before giving way to Jim Ed Warden who worked a scoreless ninth inning.

Mike Daniel, William Bergolla, and Roger Bernadina all had two hits and Jimenez drove in three with a bases-loaded walk and the two-run home run.

The Senators improve to 15-9 on the season while the Altoona Curve drop to 10-14.

Game two of the series is Wednesday morning at 10:35am and will pit RH Tristan Crawford for the Sens against RH Josh Hill for Altoona. The Senators return home Friday night to begin a seven-game homestand against the Reading Phillies.