Juan Soto walked twice, on eight total pitches, in his first two plate appearances against New York Mets’ right-hander Tylor Megill on Sunday, but the third time up in Citi Field, he missed a two-seamer up and in from left-handed reliever Aaron Loup, fouled off another sinker in that was out of the zone, then spit on a sinker and cutter down and away before taking a sinker down the middle of the plate out to left field for the first home run of the year Loup’s allowed.
“For me, I just tried to be aggressive,” Soto said of his approach in all three of those trips to the plate against the Mets.