{"id":26598,"date":"2025-08-20T08:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/soto-punishes-nationals-with-hr-31-mets-roar-in-washington\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:41:33","slug":"soto-punishes-nationals-with-hr-31-mets-roar-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/soto-punishes-nationals-with-hr-31-mets-roar-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Soto punishes Nationals with HR 31; Mets roar in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Juan Soto Imposes His Will at Nationals Park<\/h2>\n<p>The Dominican outfielder Juan Soto once again demonstrated his power at Nationals Park, but this time as a rival, hitting his 31st home run of the season in the New York Mets&#8217; victory over the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Soto&#8217;s hit, which traveled 408 feet and left the bat at a speed of 107 miles per hour, was the product of a pitch by left-hander Konnor Pilkington in the seventh inning.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets&#8217; offensive didn&#8217;t stop with Soto&#8217;s home run. Jeff McNeil, Mark Vientos, and Brett Baty also hit home runs, completing an offensive day that left the Nationals&#8217; pitching without an answer.<\/p>\n<p>The New York team dominated the match from start to finish, showing a fiery lineup that took advantage of every opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1693204362122430643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juan Soto hits a home run at Nationals Park<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With this victory, the Mets remain in the fight for a Wild Card spot in the National League and are 5.5 games behind the first place in the East Division, occupied by the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>Soto, who was a key figure for the Nationals and a fundamental piece in the conquest of the 2019 World Series, continues to demonstrate his ability to shine even against his former team, solidifying his star role in the Mets&#8217; lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Soto Imposes His Will at Nationals Park The Dominican outfielder Juan Soto once again demonstrated his power at Nationals Park, but this time as a rival, hitting his 31st home run of the season in the New York Mets&#8217; victory over the Washington Nationals. Soto&#8217;s hit, which traveled 408 feet and left the bat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[87,345,755,576],"class_list":{"0":"post-26598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-home-run","9":"tag-juan-soto","10":"tag-mets","11":"tag-nationals"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26598","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=26598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}