CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Kevin Gausman has reached the top of the baseball ladder.

The Centennial native and former Grandview High School star is pitching for the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series. Dean Adams is loving every minute of it.

Adams was the head baseball coach at Grandview while Gausman was a player there from 2006 to 2010.

"I honestly thought Kevin had the potential to make it," Adams told Denver7's Lionel Bienvenu. "I knew Division I baseball. Did I think he would get drafted? Absolutely. I noticed that his freshman year when the first ball he threw in a game was 87 miles an hour. And by the end of his freshman year, he was up to 90. That doesn't happen very often." Pictured: Dean Adams and Kevin Gausman

Gausman pitched Game 2 of the World Series, a 5-1 loss to the Los An

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