TORONTO – At the beginning of the week, George Springer felt like his swing was at long last coming together, and a home run against Ryan Weathers, his first since March 30, offered some positive reinforcement. 

Up to that point, his numbers since coming off the injured list April 29 looked like those belonging to someone playing with a broken left big toe – 9-for-48 with a double and two RBIs in 13 games – which, of course, he was. On that fifth-inning drive off the New York Yankees lefty, on a 95.3 m.p.h. fastball he sent 403 feet, he felt like he’d found a “mechanical groove” but cautioned that “there's a long way to go.”

“I really like my at-bats. I've been hitting the ball. I haven't been hitting it as hard as I would like to be. But the process of where I'm hitting the ball – up the middle but back on the left side a little bit – has........

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