MacKenzie Gore, who arrived in Washington as part of the Juan Soto trade last season, grew up in Whiteville, N.C.
He had his favorite food spots — San Jose Mexican Restaurant and Pizza Village — and he grew up in a close-knit home. The extended family got together around the holidays. He has two sisters: Meredith and their younger sibling, Lexie.
“She doesn’t realize how inspiring she is to people,” Gore said. “She doesn’t want to hear that all the time, but the good Lord blessed her with [a light] that nobody else has, which was very special. Everywhere she goes, she’s a light that’s shining bright. She’s been awesome. She’s not let anything stop her, and that’s just kind of how she tried to be.”
“He was kind of shy, but on the baseball field he came alive,” Meredith said. “It was a different person when he stood in between those lines. It was kind of fun to see.”Gore entered Whiteville High with a chance to make the varsity team. Hammond was in his first year as the pitching coach after coming over from a rival school; he was cautious about making too many changes too soon.
He was throwing only in the low to mid-80s, but Gore’s long stride made it feel as if the ball jumped on the hitter quickly. Gore — with fastball command, a strong change-up and a developing curveball — made the team.Around the same time, Hammond and Meredith met at the team’s first scrimmage. They already followed each other on social media and had exchanged a few messages beforehand, but Hammond realized then that Gore was Meredith’s younger brother.
And they did. Whiteville won the Class 1A state championship in 2014, 2015 and 2017, though Gore remembers a loss in the 2016 title game the most. All the while, he became one of baseball’s top high school prospects.
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