Are sure?
He batted it out of the park.
The reality is that it was rigged.
It may have been rigged, but he didn't bat it out of the park. Nowhere near. It's hard to see how he could have been any worse than he was.
My sense is that he didn't do much preparation because he felt like he didn't have to, and that was a terrible error in judgment on his part.
I hope he learns from this experience, and comes back much more prepared and more in control in the next two.