After all the accolades during his first couple weeks of action, Juan Soto was actually having a slow series against the Miami Marlins. Days after winning the National League Player of the Week award, he was 0-for-6 with a pair of strikeouts in the series’ first two games before going 1-for-3 in each of the next two games. He could not drive in a run or score one in either.
That four-game stretch qualifies as a slump for the 21-year-old superstar, and he broke out in his own Juan Soto way. He feasted on Marlins’ pitching Monday night for four hits, a pair of singles and a pair of doubles, driving in one run and scoring another in the Nats’ 11-8 loss to the Miami Marlins.