HOUSTON -- Washington Nationals star Juan Soto became the second-youngest player in baseball history to hit a home run in his first World Series game, sending a titanic shot over the train tracks in left field at Minute Maid Park on Tuesday night, three days before his 21st birthday.
The left-handed-hitting Soto took American League Cy Young favorite Gerrit Cole deep, 417 feet to the opposite field, in the fourth inning of Game 1 between the Nationals and Houston Astros. Only the Atlanta Braves' Andruw Jones, who was 19 years, 180 days at the time of his Game 1 homer in the 1996 World Series, was younger.