Baseball's stars shine brightest when the pressure is on and that is exactly what happened around the Minor Leagues on Thursday night. Hagen Smith (White Sox) kept his club's championship hopes alive with a dominant performance on the mound while fellow Top 100 prospects /teenagers Leo De Vries (Athletics) and Jesús Made (Brewers) did the job at the plate.

Hagen Smith, LHP, Birmingham ( CWS No. 5 / MLB No. 87 )

With Smith's team facing elimination, he came up huge for Double-A Birmingham in the Southern League semifinals. The 22-year-old twirled five hitless innings and equaled a career high with 10 strikeouts in his first postseason start as a pro. Smith tossed 73 pitches (48 for strikes) and allowed just a pair of walks while fanning five of the last six batters of his outing. De

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