Moments before the San Diego Padres announced the third selection in Monday’s Major League Baseball Draft, the MLB Network broke for a commercial. Mackenzie Gore, sitting in the living room of his Whiteville home with family members and high school coaches, inadvertently sat on the TV’s remote control.
The anxious moments awaiting his selection by the Padres were alleviated a minute later when a Twitter post popped up on his cellphone. Gore was, indeed, the third pick in the draft, a position that most certainly will sway him into soon signing a professional contract and heading off into San Diego Padres farm system later this summer.