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Live Discussion: Altoona 0, Akron 9 Final

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A live discussion doubleheader today, as regular season Major League baseball is followed by minor league postseason ball. The Altoona Curve take on the Akron RubberDucks in game four of their best-of-five series in the first round of the Eastern League playoffs. Akron won the first two games on their home field, then Altoona overcame a 5-0 deficit early to win 8-5 yesterday.

Dario Agrazal will start for Altoona in a must win game. He has thrown 13 shutout innings against Akron this season, though the last time he faced them was back on April 19th. In his last two starts during the regular season, he gave up 15 runs on 23 hits in ten innings. Akron is throwing out Sean Brady, who has faced the Curve five times already this season. He has given up at least three earned runs in all five of those games.

I’ll be adding game notes at the end of each half inning below, which will serve as the Prospect Watch for today.

Here’s the boxscore to follow along. I’ll be watching on MiLB.tv.

Here are the lineups:

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John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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