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Bradley, Payano among top prospect performers Wednesday
- Updated: April 28, 2016
Bobby Bradley is on a roll right now, and his hot hitting continued on Wednesday.
Baseball’s No. 90 overall prospect (Indians No. 3) helped Class A Advanced Lynchburg to a 12-6 win over Winston-Salem by going 3-for-5 with a home run, a pair of doubles and three RBIs. Bradley’s three-run homer was part of a 10-run fifth inning for the Hillcats, who erased a 4-1 deficit.
The long ball was the fifth of the season for Bradley and his second in as many days. The 19-year-old first baseman, a third-round pick in the 2014 Draft, is 8-for-13 over his last three games, raising his season line to .278/.354/.556 with 22 RBIs.
The rest of the best performances from top prospects Wednesday
• Class A Advanced Salem enjoyed its own 10-run inning in a 14-7 victory over Frederick, getting help from a pair of highly touted players. No. 22 overall prospect Andrew Benintendi (Red Sox No. 3), slammed a three-run homer to cap the scoring after drawing a walk earlier in the frame. No. 14 overall prospect Rafael Devers (Red Sox No. 2) also walked in the inning, forcing home a run. Devers broke out of a slump by going 2-for-3 with a homer (his second), a double, a walk and four RBIs, raising his average to .149. Benintendi went 1-for-4 with a walk and two runs scored, and the homer was his first of the season.
• No. 73 overall prospect Ian Happ (Cubs No. 3) continued to swing a hot bat by going 2-for-4 on Wednesday. Happ’s two-run homer in the first inning helped lift Class A Advanced Myrtle Beach to a 5-1 win over Potomac and gave the second baseman four long balls and 17 RBIs this season. A first-round pick last summer, Happ is batting .438 with four homers and 10 RBIs over his last 10 games.
• Braves No. 19 prospect Ricardo Sanchez improved to 2-1 by putting up zeros for five innings in Class A Rome’s 2-1 win at West Virginia. The 19-year-old left-hander allowed three hits and one walk while striking out five, lowering his ERA to 2.84.
• Cardinals No. 10 prospect Harrison Bader propelled Double-A Springfield to an 8-1 win over Northwest Arkansas with a huge game out of the leadoff spot. Bader, a third-round pick last year, raised his season average …
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