Braves ace Spencer Strider only knows how to throw heat, even when it's giving answers to a 7-year-old reporter at the MLB All-Star Game.
Whether it's at the MLB All-Star Game, the Super Bowl, or any other big event, when you see a kid reporter asking questions to some of the biggest athletes in the world, it often yields adorable results. And then there is whatever happened with Atlanta Braves ace Spencer Strider on Monday night.
In Seattle ahead of Monday night's Home Run Derby, a 7-year-old kid reporter was interviewing Strider. And rather than a nice, cute exchange between the two, leave it to the mustachioed hurler to get into the finer (and we mean really finer) points of pitching.
Specifically, Strider began talking about "supinated release" with his pitching motion, because of course he did.
Braves: Spencer Strider talks 'supinated release' to kid reporter in interview
Yes, I had to look up what supinated release is (no, I do not feel any more confident that I know what it is after doing so). So you can only imagine what was going through a 7-year-old's brain while the Braves flamethrower was dropping that kind of bomb on him in that interview.
When it comes to Strider, though, that's how this guy rolls, man. The 23-year-old All-Star — who elected not pitch in the game on Tuesday night — has been a beat-of-his-own-drum type of fella since he got the call up to the majors last year and, frankly, almost definitely before that too. So if he wants to talk about the minutia of supinated release to a child, that's what he's going to do.
Of course, Strider is leading MLB in strikeouts (166) at the break and has been one of the most dominant forces on the mound all season. So when you're dealing like that, you can talk about whatever you want to whoever you want.
