TREVOR STORY IS WIELDING THE HAMMER WHILE NOAH SYNGAARD IS DROPPING THE HAMMER

         The MLB season is a mere five days old, but there's still been plenty to talk about, from rookie sensations to unhittable pitchers to questionable rules.

         Story-book start for Trevor Story the Colorado rookie shortstop is tied for the major league lead with four home runs and seven RBIs through three games, and he's been re-writing the record books along the way.First, he became the only player ever to homer twice in his major league debut on opening day. Next, he became the first NL player to follow a two-homer debut with another home run in his second game since Charlie Reilly of the Colombus Solons did it in 1889. On Wednesday he hit his fourth homer, becoming the first player in the modern era (since 1900) to go deep in each of his first three games.
        With Jose Reyes's status in limbo due to his domestic violence case, Story seized the Rockies' starting shortstop job with a strong spring training where he hit six home runs and batted .340. He doesn't seem willing to relinquish it any time soon. Reyes might be getting a little nervous. To date Rockies shortstop Trevor Story now has seven home runs in six career games. His homer came off Padres reliever Brandon Maurer in the eighth, and gave Colorado a 5–3 lead. It traveled 425 feet.     

       Not a man on this earth' can hit Thor's slider        

      Noah Syndergaard opened his season with a 2-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday, pitching six shutout innings with nine strikeouts. But the story of the game was his slider. It's a pitch he hardly threw last season (only 11 of his 166 strikeouts came on sliders last season), but Syndergaard punched out six Royals with it on Tuesday.
Royals manager Ned Yost was left stunned.
       "He threw [Kendrys Morales] 95-, 93-, 93-mph sliders," Yost said. "There's not a man on this earth who could hit those. I even asked George [Brett], 'Do you think you could even foul one of those off?' He said, 'No way.'" With Syndergaard's already electric fastball and devastating curveball, adding an otherworldly slider to his repertoire would almost make him unfair.
      Syndergaard, nicknamed "Thor" for his long blond hair, pitches in a rotation with stars Matt Harvey and Jacob DeGrom, but with his lethal stuff, he might just be the best of the bunch and rapidly on his way to becoming one of the best in the game.