With the white king having the possibility of getting castled quite early, Hikaru has the option of converting the position into a Sicilian Defense, it looks like.
White strives to achieve a position with the domination of the light squares, where his light-colored bishop and his knights will exert pressure on the position from early on.
As is usual in the variation of the Sicilian Defense where White hosts the light-squared bishop in the powerful long diagonal, White may be able to expand easily in the queenside now, which may be a long-term concern for Black.
If one notices the most important factor of the position here, the white knight will soon be occupying a central outpost. That is enough to understand the trouble that Black faces in achieving equality hereon.
Things are working out quite easily for Hikaru, who has his task cut out. Thanks to Wesley's early unnecessary action in the opening stage itself, White will be able to soon control the queenside, apart from currently having a good command of the center.
Wesley takes his queen out on a solo misadventure, whic will only allow Hikaru to harass the lady. More than anything, almost all of White's minor pieces occupy commanding positions, and Black is yet to even develop his pieces fully.
All this combined with Black's broken pawn structure, means that White almost has a winning advantage here.
The black queen is trapped so soon. The fact that we warned about, when Wesley took the queen on a misadventure early on, has already turned out to be a conclusion, and Black faces material loss so soon.
White wins material now, prompting Wesley to resign. A quick end to an unfortunate game...
A game where Wesley was unrecognizable. Hikaru seemed to know what he was doing from the very first moves of the game. Having a favorable Sicilian Defense setup in mind, Hikaru was seen to be conducting a sensible opening play when Wesley went berserk.
Playing on the queenside too soon prematurely, Wesley effected an unfortunate pawn break quickly and created trouble for himself too easily. Further taking his queen inside the white position on a misadventure, Wesley saw his early action end in disaster when his queen got trapped too easily.
An unfortunately quick end to the second game, especially as this hands over the match itself in favor of Hikaru, and Wesley gets eliminated so suddenly. But we did predict Hikaru's comparative strength in this version of chess even before the match!
Hikaru is known for his ability to score wins with White pieces particularly, compared to his record with Black pieces. And we may even predict this as the reason for his safe play in the first game, where he seemed to play too straightforward to force equality at some point, instead of keeping the position in a flux and play for a win.