Big 3-HR Day for Stokes
<Wilmington Eagles:team#24> right fielder <Ed Stokes:player#10266> left the <Toronto:team#22> pitching staff in ruins at Eagles Ballpark today, beating the Blue Jays 11-0 with a prodigious three-home run performance. 

"The last one was totally unexpected," <Stokes:player#10266> told reporters at the press conference following his big game. "I just wanted to make good contact, never thinking I would get a home run, and bang, I got number three."

For the game, the <Wilmington:team#24> right fielder had 3 hits in 4 at-bats, drove in 9 and scored 3 runs.

<Ed Stokes:player#10266> hit a two-run home run off <Aurelio Souza:player#8347> in the 1st, hit a GRAND SLAM off <Aurelio Souza:player#8347> in the 2nd, walked in the 4th, grounded out in the 6th and hit a three-run home run off <Bobby Little:player#494> in the 8th.

This season <Stokes:player#10266> has 35 home runs and a .352 batting average.