READING, PA – The New Hampshire Fisher Cats (5-3, 39-36) tallied eight extra-base hits and walloped three home runs in a close Wednesday win at FirstEnergy Stadium against the Reading Fightin Phils (5-3, 35-42), 11-10. Catcher Aaron Parker homered twice in the win and infielder Nick Goodwin reached base four times.

Parker has homered in consecutive games and has crushed three home runs in the first two contests. The Cats’ catcher added an RBI double in the win and notched his first multi-homer game of his career.

Fisher Cats starter Gage Stanifer allowed three runs in two innings and struck out five batters. Lefty Mason Olson (W, 4-2) twirled 2-1/3 innings and notched the win. Right-handers Beau Philip and Sam Gardner each recorded four outs and left-handed pitcher Javen Coleman (SV, 4) secured a six-out save. R-Phils starter Luke Russo (L, 7-4) was hit for seven earned runs on seven hits across five innings.

The Fisher Cats scored twice in the top of the second inning. First baseman Dub Gleed worked a leadoff walk. Two batters later, designated hitter Hedbert Perez doubled. With runners at second and third, third baseman Cutter Coffey tripled to right field and made it 2-0.

Reading answered with three runs in the bottom of the second. First baseman Alex Binelas singled and following a flyout, designated hitter Kehden Hettiger doubled. One batter later, Binelas scored on a fielder’s choice. The R-Phils took the lead on a pair of RBI knocks from left fielder Riley Tirotta and shortstop Bryan Rincon.

Trailing 3-2, the Cats retook the lead in the third. Goodwin walked to being the frame. Two hitters later, Parker laced an RBI double. After a single from Gleed, right fielder Eddie Micheletti Jr. lined an RBI single and made it 4-3.

The Cats’ bats stayed hot in the fourth. Following a hit by pitch and flyout, Goodwin (8) smashed a two-run blast. Two batters later, Parker (9) clubbed a solo home run and extended the lead to four.

The Fightin Phils cut into their deficit in the bottom of the fifth with a three-run inning. Highlighting the frame were RBIs from Binelas, Hettiger, and Tirotta. The Cats responded with three of their own in the sixth. An RBI single from Goodwin and two-run homer courtesy of Parker (10) made it 10-6.

Reading wasted no time making it a one-run game again. In the bottom of the sixth, catcher Caleb Ricketts (4) demolished a three-run home run and brought the score to 10-9. After a quiet seventh and eighth, the Fisher Cats scored a run in the ninth on an RBI single from left fielder Jackson Hornung. Despite a Reading run crossing in the bottom of the ninth, New Hampshire sealed an 11-10 Wednesday win behind a six-out save from Coleman.

New Hampshire and Reading continue the series on Thursday, July 2 with a 7 p.m. first pitch. Righty Austin Cates (1-2, 4.91 ERA) will start for the Cats and right-hander Kyle Brnovich (1-7, 6.49 ERA) will counter for the R-Phils. Coverage begins at 6:40 p.m. EDT on WKXL and the Fisher Cats Radio Network.

PERRY TO FUTURES GAME

New Hampshire’s Nolan Perry (TOR No. 15, MLB Pipeline) was listed as one of 10 American League pitchers headed to the 27th edition of the Futures Game, which is scheduled for 12 p.m. EDT on Sunday, July 12, at Citizens Bank Ballpark in Philadelphia, Pa.

Perry’s listing on the American League roster marks the second consecutive season a Fisher Cats right-hander will appear in the Futures Game. On July 12, 2025, right-hander Trey Yesavage represented New Hampshire in the Futures Game with a strikeout at Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia. Perry, 22, is the 16th Fisher Cats member to be featured in the Futures Game and is the fifth since 2021.

From Carlsbad, New Mexico, Perry was headed to Texas Tech before Toronto selected him in the 12th round of the 2022 MLB Draft. The 6-foot-2 right-hander spent his first professional summer in the Florida Complex League with the FCL Blue Jays and struck out 51 batters in 38-1/3 innings. Perry spent all of 2024 with Class-A Dunedin before suffering a torn UCL and being placed on the 60-Day IL in March of 2025 and missing all of 2025.

Following a Tommy John rehab, Perry began 2026 with Dunedin and held a 1.71 ERA over five starts and was named the Florida State League’s Pitcher of the Week on April 19, thanks to five scoreless innings of one-hit ball on April 16 with 12 strikeouts. Perry received promotion to High-A Vancouver on May 3 and finished the month at 3-1 with a 1.08 ERA over five starts with 40 strikeouts and nine walks.

In his 25 innings of work, Perry allowed three earned runs before being named the Northwest League’s Pitcher of the Month.

The Toronto Blue Jays announced Perry’s promotion to Double-A New Hampshire on Tuesday, June 20. In his first Fisher Cats start, Perry punched out seven batters in three scoreless innings and limited the Fightin Phils to one hit at FirstEnergy Stadium in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Major League Baseball, in conjunction with MLB Pipeline, Baseball America and the 30 Major League Clubs, selected the 25 players named to each team. Each Major League organization is represented, and players from all player development leagues were eligible to be selected. Complete Futures Game rosters, prospect analysis and rankings can be found at MLB.com/pipeline.

The Futures Game will air exclusively on NBC with Melanie Newman (play-by-play), Yonder Alonso (analyst), Sam Dykstra (analyst) and Sande Charles (reporter) on the call.