ALTOONA, Pa. (Interstat) — Will Taylor homered and drove in three runs, lifting the Altoona Curve past the Akron RubberDucks 6-3 in the first game of a Thursday evening doubleheader at Peoples Natural Gas Field.

The Eastern League (AA) game lasted 1 hour, 48 minutes. Altoona finished with five hits. Peyton Stumbo earned the win after allowing three runs on four hits over six innings with four strikeouts. Jay Driver took the loss. Tyler Owens recorded the save, his fifth, with a scoreless inning and one strikeout.

Akron scored first when Luke Hill’s sacrifice fly brought home Aaron Walton in the second. Jace LaViolette added a two-run homer in the fifth, scoring Jaison Chourio, who went 2-for-2. Franklin Gómez struck out four and allowed one hit and one earned run over five innings for Akron.

Altoona tied it in the sixth on Titus Dumitru’s two-run single, which also came after a deflection, before Taylor’s three-run homer. Akron fell to 66-67, while Altoona improved to 59-75.