{"id":119489,"date":"2026-05-26T04:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/juan-soto-absent-mets-vs-reds-without-the-dominican-due-to-illness\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T04:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:56:26","slug":"juan-soto-absent-mets-vs-reds-without-the-dominican-due-to-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/juan-soto-absent-mets-vs-reds-without-the-dominican-due-to-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Soto Absent: Mets vs Reds without the Dominican due to Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Juan Soto out with the 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 flu-like illness, according to manager Carlos Mendoza.<\/p>\n<p>Soto, who already missed Sunday&#8217;s game, presented symptoms such as fever, body aches, and difficulty sleeping, which have affected him for several days.<\/p>\n<p>While Soto recovers, Nick Morabito will occupy left field and Carson Benge will act as designated hitter in the first game of the series against the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n<p>The absence of Soto is a challenge for the Mets, who are already facing other significant absences in their squad.<\/p>\n<p>Before getting sick, Soto was in a good offensive moment, batting .333 in his last seven games, 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, accumulating 10 home runs and an OPS of .949.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets will look to improve their offensive performance while awaiting the return of one of their main figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Soto out with the 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 flu-like illness, according to manager Carlos Mendoza. Soto, who already missed Sunday&#8217;s game, presented symptoms such as fever, body aches, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[12737,345,10387,755],"class_list":{"0":"post-119489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-flu","9":"tag-juan-soto","10":"tag-low","11":"tag-mets"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119489","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=119489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}