Going into last night’s matchup with the St. Louis Cardinals in Washington, D.C.’s Nationals Park, the Nationals highlighted in their pregame notes the fact that Juan Soto had reached base safely in 32 of 33 games going back to June 17.
Soto had a .295/.464/.562 line with five doubles, a triple, seven home runs, 32 walks, and 17 strikeouts during the 33-game stretch which took the 23-year-old, fifth-year veteran from an un-Soto-like .220/.367/.440 line on the year to .243/.399/.478.
While the average isn’t where we’ve come to expect it to be early in Soto’s career, he did lead all MLB hitters, “.