Juan Soto’s first game back at Yankee Stadium (EVERY PITCH)!
[Applause] Well, it is everything we expected and everything frankly that Juan Sodto expected and hope for and it might continue all night. Ball one soda. Oh, it will. Last year as a Yankee, 41 home runs, a careerhigh, 109 RBI’s, 989 OPS as he and Judge for quite the one two tandem. Don’t kid yourself. You’ll get this reception for the next 15 years in this building. I think so. I have heard opposing players do it before. I have never heard anything like this. Now, I know they say that the Yankee fans boo out like this, but this is something else. Don is behind them 3 and 0. So, if there’s a little anxiety on Sodto’s part with all these booze raining down on him, he is showing none of that at the plate. Do you give him a three- 0 hit sign? Why not? Yeah, I agree. And wouldn’t that be a capper if he launched one? Said he takes a strike. Well, Sodto has had homecomings before. In his first game for the Yankees against the Padres’s after he was traded, he hit a two-run homer off U Darish. In his first game for the Padres’s against the Nats, he had two hits. And he takes the walk. And the Mets double a one out base run. 34th walk of the year for Sodto who started the night second in the National League behind Marcelo Zuna. I don’t know who was more nervous, Rodon or or Sodto. The Yankees scored four in the bottom of the third. Now Carlos Rodon who’s been sitting in the dugout for a long time gets ready to try and protect that lead with Juan Sto set to lead off for the Mets. Sodto’s been the Mets’s only base runner tonight. He walked and stole a base in the first inning. And 27 minutes after his last pitch, Rodan throws a fast ball for a strike. Thought about hitting for a half hour. They almost did. Alonzo and Bentos to follow. So it’ll take some slider down to ball and a strike. Okay. I hope you feel better, sir. Outstanding arts and crafts. Yes. What font do [Applause] you Well, the stadium only has so much vitriol. Not nearly the reaction, but second at bat that he got from the first one. One, two coming. Bounces that slider. Two and two. I think the four points helped. Well, it was clear when Sodto batted in the first inning that the only person unnerved by it was Carlos Rodan, no doubt, but he regained his composure. Got a nice defensive play behind him the next at bat and has settled in since. Two coming and that’s away. Full count. Good eye. I I’m just of the feeling, Ronnie, that he does not swing at breaking balls in the dirt. He’ll chase some fast balls. If you got Sodto up, you got to go after him. 3-2 from Redon and he just got a piece of that fast ball to stay in the back. Well, that was a fast ball. Tried to load up on that. Just got it a little piece of it. Wells could not corral it. So his walk in the first inning was his 34th of the year. On the pace for about 120 walks and he grounds that one foul. He seems to be having a really good time. Eighth pitch of the atbat from Rodon. And that’s too high. Ball four. And Sodto walks for a second time. Doesn’t sound fire to me. Well, now the Yankee fans have a five- run lead. They’re playing with house booing. Sodto’s been up twice, walked both times, so he certainly hasn’t been over anxious. Stole a base in the first inning, scored the Mets only run in the fourth. Maybe that’s why Rice isn’t playing tonight. That was up and in. And did they call that a swing though? No. Knew they were asking. I mean, that’s amazing, right? Anytime he gets to 0 and1. Wow. 086 against him. That’s the lowest batting average after an 0 and1 count of any pitcher in the major. Interesting. After that exchange up and in the first exchange, he came right Odone. I don’t know whether he meant to do it on purpose, but he came right back up and in. Ronnie And he drops in the slider for a strike. And it’s two at two. Up and in, down and [Applause] away. Two- two coming. That’s one foul. [Applause] takes the sinker down. It’s three and two. Saw an interesting stat on Sodto yesterday that last year, if you compare last year with his career averages, he pulled the ball 6% more, which is a big piece. So he obviously was playing to the ballpark. This year we’ve seen him use left center much more effectively. He pulls that one foul. Well, at this ballpark, you know that he can cover the ball. He’s got great power to left center, but in this ballpark, it can end up being an F8. I just feel a lot of some of it has to do with the fact that he just I think getting settled. He hasn’t really settled in. He hasn’t found a hot streak yet. Seventh full count for Rodon tonight, including two against Sodto and one walks for the third time. Four walks for Rodon, three of them to Sodto. So he’s aboard with two out for Alonzo. Well, the boos have not phased Juan tonight. He’s been up three times. Walked all three. Now facing Lighter for the first time. He fouls off a first pitch fast ball. Nothing at one. And the curve ball stayed outside. A ball [Music] strike. So those three walked 36 for the year. PS up to 855. And he checks his swing. Did he go? did not play off the splitter. Two and one. So in a full conversation with Austin Wells, he loves to converse during his events. often with the old player. Two of two. Jeez, he didn’t talk a lot at all in only if umpire missed one. Even Tony Pñena couldn’t get you to talk. Gary Carter was the big chatterbox behind the play. I told him to shut up one time. So nice of you. Good manners. Tua, it’s two- two and that splitter just missed dropping into the strike zone. Full count. Well, third straight time that Soda’s run a full count. Mike Baxter watching this game now. Soda never walked four times in a game as a Yankee. hasn’t done it yet as a Met. Backter became the only Met to walk five times in a nine in a game. I was at San Diego a few years back. [Applause] 3-2 from Lighter and Sodto bangs one off the mound right to Vulpi and the throw is in time to retire the side. Well, Juan Sto gets one more crack back in the Bronx. Walked his first three times up tonight. He grounded out in the seventh and now with the Mets down to their final out at twice already down to their final strike. Still moving in this ninth inning. And Sodto just trying to get on base any way he can to get Pete Alonzo to the plate as the tying run against Luke Weaver. Luke Weaver, you see his numbers on the air. He waited his time out by Devin Williams was imploding there early in the season and took over the manel just like he did last season. Pretty flawless down the stretch. Not indicated in those stats though. He’s inherited 10 runners this year and five of the 10 have scored. comes in with second and third and two out. The Mets down to their last out and Sodto first pitch swinging fouls it away. Sodto in a spot where he needs to get on any way he can going against type there and trying to jump on a first pitch fast. Sodto’s had nine career at bats against Weaver. Two for nine. Two walks and an RBI double for Lindor giving the Mets a run in this top of the ninth. One more base runner and then Alonzo could come up as the tying run and Sodto flies one out to center. Should be easy for Gishian and the Yankees have taken game one of the Subway Series. A 4-run third inning, a two-run fourth inning. Lots of booze for Juan Sodto and the Yankees defeat the Mets in the first game in the Bronx six-2.
Every pitch Mets right fielder Juan Soto saw in his return to Yankee Stadium during Rivalry Weekend.
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