LINEUPS:

Altoona
SS - Chase d'Arnaud
CF - Gorkys Hernandez
3B - Josh Harrison
1B - Matt Hague
2B - Jordy Mercer
RF - Alex Presley
C - Kris Watts
DH - Shelby Ford
LF - Anthony Newman
RHP - Bryan Morris

Thunder
LF - Justin Christian
CF - Austin Krum
C - Austin Romine
3B - Brandon Laird
2B - Matt Cusick
RF - Dan Brewer
1B - Marcos Vechionacci
DH - Edwar Gonzalez
SS - Luis Nunez
RHP - Lance Pendleton

6:56 - Sorry to be so late on this stuff, been talking to a lot of people about a variety of things. As you can see, Matt Cusick is in the lineup for the first time, hitting fifth. With Scranton this year, Cusick was hitting .265 with nine RBIs in 29 games. He had been hitting .365 over his last 10, which makes the demotion a bit of a bummer.

Tony Franklin's pregame audio, in which he discusses the aftermath of last night's loss and post-game lecture, is below. Enjoy.



7:49 -Here's some thrilling video of Matt Cusick's first 2010 Thunder plate appearance, a four-pitch walk.



8:57 - Thunder have opened it thanks to a bunch of infield singles and a three-run bomb from Luis Nunez, who is 3-for-3 tonight after a bad baserunning mistake last night. Josh Harrison did some work for Altoona, clubbing a three-run jack of his own off of Lance Pendleton, who before that had made very few mistakes.

Here's some video of Marcos Vechionacci singling before Nunez's bomb.



It's an 8-4 final here from Waterfront Park as the Thunder complete a series win over the Altoona Curve. Here's some postgame audio from Tony Franklin and Luis Nunez, who went 3-for-4 with a three-run home run. The Nunez audio is the last two files.







Also, here's some video of Tim Norton's debut, and Lance Pendleton dissecting another excellent start. As Mike Ashmore points out, 5-3 with a 3.66 ERA ain't too bad for someone who started the year as a reliever.

There were three stories from yesterday's Thunder game in today's Trentonian. There was:

The game story, written by yours truly
A sidebar on John Maine's rehab start, written by correspondent Erin Egan
A sidebar on MLS players Shannon Myers and Danleigh Borman, written by correspondent Jeremy Schneider

Also, here's video of Hector Noesi fanning Mike Nickeas for the last out of his complete game yesterday, as well as Edwar Gonzalez talking about a variety of topics postgame.





And here's some postgame audio from Tony Franklin and Hector Noesi (with his girlfriend acting as interpreter).

Here's the skipper talking about a wide variety of topics, from Paul Bush's status, to Kevin Mahoney's attitude, to former Thunder center fielder Austin Jackson and his catch in Armando Galarraga's perfect game that wasn't. It's in two parts. Enjoy.