LOS ANGELES – George Springer has spent the past six seasons enduring a cacophony of boos whenever he plays a road game, lingering fallout from his role in the 2017 Houston Astros ’ sign-stealing scandal, uncovered publicly in 2019.

This is the city where stars are born. Eight years ago, George Springer put on a career-defining performance, winning the 2017 World Series MVP for the Astros with a stretch of games at Dodger Stadium that cemented him as one of the game’s great young outfielders.

Fansspeculate Yoshinobu Yamamoto intentionally targeted George Springer recalling lingering Astros sign-stealing scandal suspicions.