Baseball: Lucas Giolito goes No. 16 to Nationals

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Right-hander Lucas Giolito of Harvard-Westlake has been selected No. 16 overall by the Washington Nationals in baseball’s amateur draft.

Giolito hasn’t pitched since an early March elbow injury. Before that, he had hit 100 mph on the radar gun.

-- Eric Sondheimer