Soto Blast Breaks 13-Game Homerless Streak

Juan Soto entered Monday hitting .250 (13-for-52) in his first 15 games as a Met. He’d gone 13 games without a home run and five without an RBI. He looked cold sporting a hoodie in the Minnesota outfield.

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By Soto standards, this could qualify as a slump, though a bit of research by MMO’s Patrick Glynn shows that his 11-game stretch entering Monday with an OPS of .683 wouldn’t even be among the worst 20 11-game OPS stretches of his career. (He had a .353 OPS for 11 games in 2022.