“Juan Soto obviously should have hustled here.
Jogging out of the box in the 8th inning of a tie game, laughing with the Yankees players etc.,” Mets Avenue wrote.
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The 26-year-old went 1-for-10 with four walks, three strikeouts, two steals and two runs in the three-game Subway Series.
Last year for the Yankees, Soto hit .288 with a .989 OPS and smashed a career-high 41 homers with 109 RBIs.
For Juan Soto to have poor numbers in the middle of May is one thing. After agreeing to the largest contract in sports history, it’s another for him to not go out of the box.
When the $765 million man failed to hustle out of the box on a ground ball to second base in the eighth inning of Sunday night’s nationally televised Subway Series loss to the Yankees in the Bronx, fans became irate.
Second baseman DJ LeMahieu had to make a difficult sliding grab to his right after Soto led off the inning against Yankees reliever Devin Williams with a 1-1 pitch up the middle with the score tied 2-2.
Soto had not yet reached the halfway point of the first base line when LeMahieu got the ball on the grass just past the infield dirt; he only lowered his head and accelerated it further after LeMahieu got it.
Before Cody Bellinger’s grand slam and the Yankees’ six-run attack in the bottom half won the rubber game, the Mets went down in order in the eighth.
Soto received criticism on social media for failing to think creatively.
Juan Soto ought to have hurried here, of course. “Uncertain of his thoughts,” Ben Yoel wrote on X.
Jomboy’s Jack Oliver wrote, “How the f–k do you not hustle here? That’s terrible.”.
Right now, Soto is playing so sloppily that I don’t understand it. Not a shuffle. Absence of intensity. Laughing with the Yankees players, jogging out of the box during the eighth inning of a tie game, etc. “Metropolitan Avenue wrote.”.
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“My god, why didn’t Juan Soto hustle there?” X user @krissyy_elyse wrote.
This weekend, “Soto’s hustle has been absolutely horrible,” @MaddlxDJ64 wrote.
Soto spent a season with the Yankees and guided them to a World Series appearance, but he was loudly jeered by Yankees fans all weekend long.
Over the course of the three-game Subway Series, the 26-year-old went 1-for-10 with four walks, three strikeouts, two steals, and two runs.
Soto has a .822 OPS, eight home runs, 20 RBIs, 37 walks, 33 strikeouts, nine doubles, and 33 runs in 46 games this season.
Last season, Soto hit a career-high 41 home runs with 109 RBIs and hit .288 with a .989 OPS for the Yankees.
