Juan Soto continues to find his footing in his first year with the Mets and now has a perfect day at the plate to show for it.
The $765 million man reached base in all six of his plate appearances during New York’s 13-5 beatdown of the Colorado Rockies on Sunday, with three singles and three walks.
“Three singles and three walks, not easy to do at the big-league level,” Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said. “You get to the plate six times and find a way to get on base, it’s good to see him do that, and finally getting results. But I feel the at-bat quality has been there throughout.”
No Mets player had reached base six times in a game since Pete Alonso on Aug. 15, 2019, with Soto’s three hits coming in each of his first three at-bats.
They were all bullets, too. His liner in the first inning left his bat at 102.3 mph. He led off the third with a 98.8 single to right, before cannoning a 107.5 mph laser to center in the fourth. He came around to score three times in his six times on base.
“You couldn’t ask for a more perfect day offensively,” Alonso, who homered twice and passed David Wright for second on the Mets’ all-time list, said of Soto’s showing. “His commanding of the strike zone, him hitting the ball hard all over the yard, staying in the middle of the field, and just crushing liners, it was a perfect day for him. He’s been killing it. I feel like he’s going to continue to do it for sure.”
While Soto’s approach and analytics remain unchanged, the stat sheet certainly is over his last 10 games. After batting .224 with a .745 OPS in his first 55 games as a Met, the 26-year-old is slashing .364/.553/.697 (1.250 OPS) with three home runs and six RBI.
“I am finally landing some pitches, making some good swings with good decisions, finding some holes,” Soto said.
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