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and launched a mammoth home run to left field that came a few feet
shy of leaving rain-soaked Wrigley for good.
After reaching base four out of five trips to the plate with a home run,
two walks and a hit by pitch, Witt was announced the Under Armour
MVP.
While Witt’s home run was the biggest moment of the game, it wasn’t
the only one. Hagerty High (Oviedo, Fla.) outfielder Riley Greene hit
his own home run during the bottom of the first inning, taking
advantage of a hanging Brennan Malone slider and depositing the
pitch deep into the right field stands to give the National team an
early 2-0 lead, with Georgia shortstop C.J. Abrams also scoring on the
play after starting the inning with a leadoff double.
“Oh my gosh, this was amazing,” Greene said after the game. “Hitting
that home run in the first inning, I was shaking after it I was so
excited.”
A Florida commit, Greene entered the 2019 draft cycle as one of the
class’s best hitters for average and power and showed why this week
with several impressive batting practices and his in-game power
surge.
Georgia righthander Daniel Espino put up the biggest numbers on the
radar gun, getting his fastball up to 99 mph, with the pitch ranging
from 95-99 mph in his one-inning look. Espino threw from a lower
three-quarter arm slot but got some cutting life on his fastball, and