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It’s been 11,332 days since Reading last raised the Eastern League championship trophy. Estibenzon Jimenez ends that streak with a strikeout to give the Fightin Phils a 13-4 win and a 2-0 series sweep over Erie in the Eastern League championship

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Carson DeMartini with a grand exclamation point. The second grand slam of the night for Reading gives the Fightin Phils a 13-3 lead in the eighth. They’ve scored 11 consecutive runs. Get the 🍾 ready

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A third strikeout for Wen-Hui Pan and he throws two clean innings for Reading. It’s his first multi-inning scoreless outing since June 3, and just his fourth multi-inning outing of the season coming off Tommy John surgery

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Aroon Escobar keeps piling on with an RBI triple to extend Reading’s lead to 9-3

That may have been the most impressive outing for Wen-Hui Pan since his call up to AA. He strikes out a pair in a clean seventh inning to shut down the Erie offense

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Great piece of hitting by Bryan Rincon, singling the other way to drive in Pedro Leon. It’s a 6-run inning for Reading and it has an 8-3 lead

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Caleb Ricketts gets a 3-2 hanger and launches a one-out grand slam to give Reading a 7-3 lead on Erie in the bottom of the sixth

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Aidan Miller scores from third on a wild pitch and ties the game at 2-2

Mitch_Rupert @mitchrupert.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Aidan Miller hooks a breaking ball into the left field corner and Dante Nori scores from first base to get Reading on the board. Fightin Phils trail Erie, 2-1

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Nice little 6-3 double play from Bryan Rincon to end the first inning. Erie gets a pair on a two-run homer to take a 2-0 lead after a half inning

Mitch_Rupert @mitchrupert.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reading is facing Erie's Lusac Elissalt tonight. Elissalt is a former 13th round pick. The Fightin Phils touched up Elissalt for 6 hits and 5 runs in 4 IP just 13 days ago in an 11-3 win

Mitch_Rupert @mitchrupert.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

According to my very quick research, with the Reading Fightin Phils on the brink of their first Eastern League title since 1995, here are the Phillies' last minor league championship teams at each level

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Mitch_Rupert @mitchrupert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The day after his 24th birthday, Wen-Hui Pan works around a walk and a stolen base by painting the black with 96 mph, then inducing a weak popup that Bryan Rincon and Aroon Escobar turn into an inning-ending double play

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Mitch_Rupert @mitchrupert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mavis Graves entered in the sixth inning with two on and nobody out and didn’t allow a run. He struck out 4 over 2 scoreless innings. The slider is legit, and Mavis Graves as a reliever is a legit weapon right now

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Mitch_Rupert @mitchrupert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reading was 0 for 6 with runners in scoring position and stranded 8 runners on base. But this sacrifice fly from Caleb Ricketts was enough to give the Fightin Phils a 1-0 win and a 1-0 lead in the best-of-3 Eastern League Championship Series

Mitch_Rupert @mitchrupert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Raider Tello with his second home run in three games at AAA. Called up to help a MASH unit of a roster, Tello continues to hit. He’s slashed 295/359/393 over 85 games in the minors this year coming into today.

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Mitch_Rupert @mitchrupert.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bryan Rincon gets in on the fun with a two-out, 3-run double. Reading has scored 16 runs on 13 hits and 7 walks in fewer than three innings

Aroon Escobar caps off an eight-run seventh inning with a 2-run homer, his 12th of the season for Reading

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Bryan Rincon isn’t done yet. He goes splash down into the pool the other way for his 26th home run of the season. He’s homered from both sides of the plate today for Reading

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Carson DeMartini opens the scoring for Reading today with his ninth home run of the season. DeMartini has played in only 58 games this year but has an OPS over .900

Bryan Rincon’s first game as a Top 100 prospect and he launches his 25th home run of the season. It goes 420 feet at 107 mph for a two-run shot on the final day of the regular season

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Aroon Escobar with a. Fifty glove flip to start a 6-4-3 double play to give Reading an 11-10 win. The Fightin Phils are second half Northeast Division champs and earn their first playoff berth since 2019

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Carson DeMartini provides some more cushion for Reading with a two-run single to score Bryan Rincon and Dante Nori. Fightin Phils lead Erie, 11-7

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Aidan Miller smokes the right-center field wall with a double to drive in a pair of runs for Reading to push the lead to 9-6. Miller also has an infield single tonight

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Dante Nori puts Reading back in front with a one-out RBI single that gives the Fightin Phils a 7-6 lead

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Aroon Escobar hooks a knuckleball into the corner to score Carson DeMartini and push Reading’s lead to 6-2 over Erie

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Will Gasparino drives a 95 mph fastball up the opposite field alley at 106.7 mph for a two-run triple that puts Clearwater in front of Tampa, 3-2, after 6 innings.

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Matthew Ferrara gets Clearwater on the board with a bullet of a solo home run. It’s the first hit of the day for the Threshers and cuts their deficit to 2-1

Gage Wood strikes out 5 tonight over 5 innings for Reading. He allows 7 hits and 2 runs (on a 2-run homer), and doesn’t walk a batter, throwing 54 of 78 pitches for strikes. Wood now has 139 strikeouts in 95 IP this season

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Carson DeMartini goes dead center off the Redners Event Center for a solo home run, his eighth of the year for Reading

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How in the world does Raylin Heredia get his barrel to this fastball? It’s his 23rd homer of the season to break the game open for Reading

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Mitch_Rupert @mitchrupert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh my, Aroon Escobar. All 440 feet of this home run gets Reading tied at 2-2 with Erie. Fightin Phil’s’ magic number for a second half title is 3 entering the night

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Bryan Rincon gets a run back for Reading with his 24th home run of the season, a solo shot to make it 4-1. It’s his 61st RBI of the year.

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Mitch_Rupert @mitchrupert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Nestor Cortes with a strikeout in the first inning for Clearwater, but allows a pair of hits, including a 2-out RBI double, for Clearwater.

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Mitch_Rupert @mitchrupert.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Carson DeMartini with a pair of key insurance runs for Reading in the eighth inning. Somehow ends up being a single. But gives Reading a 6-2 lead

Mitch_Rupert @mitchrupert.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Four strikeouts in 1.2 IP for Richie Cortese today, including stranding the bases loaded in the 8th. Sat 94-96, T98. Over his last 6 games post-IL stint, 8 IP, 1 hit, 0 runs, 13 Ks, 4 BB

Mitch_Rupert @mitchrupert.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I cannot wait for Kyler Carmack to have an offseason of strength and work as opposed to recovery. He’s had a couple rough outings, but the stuff is there. Now 12 strikeouts in 5 IP since coming back from Tommy John surgery

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Mitch_Rupert @mitchrupert.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Aidan Miller doubles to the corner in his first AB for Clearwater, a 109.1 mph bullet

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Mitch_Rupert @mitchrupert.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Aidan Miller boots the first ball hit at him

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Mitch_Rupert @mitchrupert.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Aidan Miller is leading off and playing shortstop for Clearwater tonight in his first rehab game. Miller is expected to play 5 innings.

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Richie Cortese with a pair of strikeouts tonight in a scoreless inning which saw him top out at 97 mph. In his last 6.1 IP, Cortese has struck out 9 and walked 2 and opponents are hitting .059 with a .217 OPS against him

Clearwater’s Matthew Ferrara went 4 for 6 across a doubleheader today, including a trio of stolen bases. In his last 47 games entering Thursday, the 19-year old was slashing 294/382/371 with 29 RBIs and 40 runs scored. He was also 20 for 23 in stolen bases over that time

Jack Hopko walks it off for Clearwater!! The undrafted free agent completes a 6-run seventh inning for the Threshers to overcome a 5-0 deficit and sweep both ends of the doubleheader

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Phillies 10th-round pick Reece Moroney blisters on through the middle for an RBI single. Moroney has two hits in the nightcap and is hitting .417 with a 1.021 OPS in his first 12 pro games

A career high 10 strikeouts for Reading’s Gage Wood. He threw four shutout innings before allowing a trio of baserunners to start the fifth innings. He allowed 4 hits, 2 runs and walked a pair. He threw 55 of 86 pitches for strikes with 15 swings and miss

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