TROY — Former Troy High star Eric Beaulac, who hasn’t thrown a competitive pitch in nine years, will start for the Tri-City ValleyCats at 6:30 p.m. Friday against the Washington Wild Things at Joseph L. Bruno Stadium.
He’s scheduled to pitch just one inning. The 36-year-old is coming out of retirement for one night for charity.
Beaulac, a 6-foot-5 right-hander drafted in the ninth round by the New York Mets out of Le Moyne in 2008, will pitch to raise awareness and funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
“This was the reason I wanted to come out retirement — to bring exposure, awareness and try to raise as much money as we can,” Beaulac said. “Try to raise baseball as a tool to propel the funds and just try to be able to do as much as we can.”
Beaulac spent six seasons in affiliated minor-league baseball with the Mets and Orioles. He reached as high as Triple-A Norfolk with the Orioles in 2012. He wrapped up his career in independent ball in 2014 in the Canadian-American Association, which merged in 2019 with the Frontier League, which includes the ValleyCats.
Beaulac works as a wealth advisor at Wilmington Trust. He’s a candidate for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Visionary of the Year. Fundraiser tickets are available for a special pre-game event in the Picnic Pavilion or in a selected reserved box selection of seats. The event will include concourse tables with information regarding LLS and first-pitch opportunities to raise awareness.
Tickets for the Picnic Pavilion are $30 with $10 from each ticket donated back to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Reserved box tickets are $11 with $2 from each ticket donated back to the LLS campaign.
Beaulac said his girlfriend’s father is in remission from Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Beaulac’s next-door neighbor died from blood cancer.
He said he…
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