{"id":119450,"date":"2026-05-25T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/juan-soto-absent-starless-mets-vs-reds-due-to-illness\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:48:09","slug":"juan-soto-absent-starless-mets-vs-reds-due-to-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/juan-soto-absent-starless-mets-vs-reds-due-to-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Soto Absent: Starless Mets vs. Reds Due to Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Juan Soto, out of action due to flu: Mets adjust their lineup<\/h2>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2013 Dominican outfielder Juan Soto will not be in the New York Mets&#8217; lineup for the second consecutive day due to a bad flu, according to manager Carlos Mendoza before the start of the series against the Cincinnati Reds at Citi Field.<\/p>\n<p>Soto was absent from Sunday&#8217;s game after presenting fever, body aches, and difficulty sleeping, symptoms that have affected him for several days.<\/p>\n<p>While Soto recovers, Nick Morabito will cover left field and Carson Benge will be the designated hitter in the first game of the series against Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Soto&#8217;s absence is a challenge for the Mets, who are already facing other significant absences in their squad.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Francisco Lindor<\/li>\n<li>Francisco \u00c1lvarez<\/li>\n<li>Ronny Mauricio<\/li>\n<li>Luis Robert Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Kodai Senga<\/li>\n<li>Clay Holmes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before getting sick, Soto was in a good offensive moment. In his last seven games, he batted .333, with four home runs and seven RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>The Santo Domingo outfielder has been key in New York&#8217;s offense in the 2026 season, with 10 home runs and an OPS of .949.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets are looking to improve their offensive performance while awaiting Soto&#8217;s return to the lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Soto, out of action due to flu: Mets adjust their lineup NEW YORK \u2013 Dominican outfielder Juan Soto will not be in the New York Mets&#8217; lineup for the second consecutive day due to a bad flu, according to manager Carlos Mendoza before the start of the series against the Cincinnati Reds at Citi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[12737,290,345,755],"class_list":{"0":"post-119450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-flu","9":"tag-injury","10":"tag-juan-soto","11":"tag-mets"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}