Arden Zwelling

Really well-executed pitches.

Like you said, Springer swung through both of them.

He's now 0-2.

For George Springer to get around on 98 miles per hour, the hardest pitch that he's hit for a home run since like 2022 or 2023, and to pull it the way he did to left, that means he's sold out for it.

100%.

He was waiting for that pitch.

That means he cheated to it.

He just thought this is the pitch that I'm going to get.

And think about it.

Like he just beat you with two fastballs up.

The catcher behind the plate is thinking, all right, let's go down.

Right.

Like the catcher behind the plate was thinking, or let's go out or let's throw something spinning.

Let's clearly he's like geared up for a fastball right now.

Like let's throw something off speed and exploit that.

I just think it was a really smart piece of heading for George Springer to probably see Paul Skeen's shake and just, it's a guess, but it's like, it's a guess that I think,

is built on doing your homework before the game and like actually studying tendencies and actually looking at what Paul Skeens likes to do in various situations.

And George Springer, having said that, like read, this is why his baseball IQ is so high, read that situation and figured, okay, I'm going to cheat to a fastball here.

And because Skeens let it leak,

just to that high and inside place, part of the zone where he slugs, Springer was able to shoot it into left field seats for an absolute bomb.