Freddie Freeman did it again at Minute Maid Park.
The swing looked casual, a compact and nonchalant movement resembling a tennis backhand to the opposite field. Young Astros starter Joe Musgrove did not make his crucial mistake in the location of his sweeping curveball — a pitch breaking just enough to catch the outside part of the plate — so much as he did by even throwing a pitch his foil was clearly sitting on anywhere near the zone. The ball left Freeman’s bat at 101 miles per hour and kept carrying. Houston center fielder Jake Marisnick eventually nabbed the ball after it ricocheted well above the yellow home-run marker on the ballpark’s imposing left-field fence.