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Draft  | Story  | 8/9/2016

Area Code Games Day 3 Notes

David Rawnsley     
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Day 1 Notes | Day 2 Notes

Day 3 of the Area Code Games was by far the best day of the event so far.  The fourth and final game started a couple of minutes ahead of schedule instead of two hours late, as happened the first two days.  The unequivocal key was that the vast majority of the pitchers threw strikes and worked ahead in counts.  The expected baseball things followed; fielders were sharp and steady in their execution, catchers threw out baserunners, hitters had quality at-bats and baseball was fun.

While the 10 hours of baseball was first rate, it was one single swing that scouts have been waiting for all summer and will remember through next spring that stands out.  Every scout in the country is very familiar with Jordon Adell's (Louisville, Ky.) enormous physical tools, but he hasn't been able to take those tools into game action all summer.  That changed when the righthanded hitter hit a screaming 400-foot line drive to left-center field that looked as if it would have knocked over the wall if it hadn't cleared it.  It will go down as the hardest hit ball of the summer circuit, with little doubt.  That Adell tore into a curveball for a line shot at third his next at-bat was gravy.


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