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Ceremonial First Pitches
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Come out to the Reading Phillies and celebrate in style.  We offer anyone the opportunity to walk out to the pitchers mound, wind up, and throw a pitch to a player at home plate.  
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vs. Akron
Sat May 17 
Seats available More info
6:05 pm 

(4:00 HH / 5:00 gates)

Post-Game Fireworks 
- Literacy Council of Reading - 40th Anniversary
Happy Hour w/ live music from Shame  & $1.00 off selected beers
- All Star Distributing
Post-Game concert w/ Shame  in the Classic Café
- Classic Harley-Davidson

Sun May 18 
Seats available More info
1:05 pm 

(12:00 gates)

R-Phils Mascot Band Hat (K2000) 
- Pepsi
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Reunion w/ Queen of Baseballtown Ruth Hartman and Friends
- 830 AM WEEU
$1.00 Hot Dogs
- Berks Packing / Stroehmann's
Post-Game Run the Bases (ALL AGES)
- 69 News Berks Edition

 

Mike Eylward, IF

B-T: R-R

HT: 6-2

WT: 210

BORN: September 28, 1979, Clearwater, FL

RESIDES: Clearwater

HOW OBTAINED: Signed by Phillies as a Minor League free agent ('08); Originally drafted by LAA in 44th round of June 2001 draft

PERSONAL: Attended the University of South Florida ... 2007: Appeared in 130 games with Salt Lake (AAA) ... logged playing time at three different positions (1B, 3B, OF) ... went 4-for-5 with a HR and 6 RBI against Tacoma (7/18) ... recorded a hit in 19 of 20 games from 6/12-7/3 to raise his avg. from .268 to .295 ... batted .341 against lefties ... 2006: Began the season with Arkansas (AA) of the Texas League ... appeared in 26 games before being promoted to Salt Lake (AAA) ... Finished the year 9th in the Pacific Coast League with a .314 batting average ... had 35 multi-hit games ... recorded a hit in 10 straight games (8/9-8/18) ... 2005: Spent the entire season with Arkansas (AA) ... logged playing time 6 different positions (1B, 2B, 3B, LF, RF, DH) ... batted .342 with 15 2B, 5 HR and 30 RBI in 58 home games ... recorded 31 multi-hit games ... 2004: Spent the season with Arkansas (AA) ... played 99 of his 115 games at 1B ... finished the season with a .996 fielding % when playing 1B ... 2003: Spent the entire season with Rancho Cuca (A) of the California League ... logged time at 5 different positions (1B, 3B, LF, RF and DH) ... 2002: Spent the season with Cedar Rapids (A) if the Midwest League ... played a career-high 22 games in the OF ... 2001: Played 7 games with Provo (R) of the Pioneer League ... was promoted to Cedar Rapids (A) for the remainder of the year and played in 23 games

CAREER STATISTICS

YEAR TEAM AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS
2001 Provo .300 7 20 7 6 3 0 0 5 2 5 0 0
  Cedar Rapids .233 23 90 12 21 6 1 2 12 5 21 0 0
2002 Cedar Rapids .263 98 350 55 92 22 4 8 43 31 55 2 3
2003 Rancho Cuca .290 109 389 51 113 27 2 13 61 35 67 1 4
2004 Arkansas .260 115 392 36 102 15 0 6 58 35 77 3 1
2005 Arkansas .287 123 418 62 120 26 2 14 72 37 58 3 5
2006 Arkansas .365 26 104 16 38 12 1 5 25 7 13 2 2
  Salt Lake .314 109 405 57 127 22 0 8 63 43 60 1 6
2007 Salt Lake .305 130 479 72 146 31 0 11 79 46 64 1 5
Minors Totals .289 740 2647 368 765 164 10 67 418 241 420 13 26

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