{"id":9913,"date":"2025-06-11T02:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T06:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/soto-overpowers-gore-after-homer-mets-comeback-with-dominican-star\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T02:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T06:18:04","slug":"soto-overpowers-gore-after-homer-mets-comeback-with-dominican-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/soto-overpowers-gore-after-homer-mets-comeback-with-dominican-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Soto Overpowers Gore After Homer: Mets Comeback with Dominican Star"},"content":{"rendered":"Juan Soto regains his rhythm. After a complicated May that lowered his batting average to .224, the Mets of New York slugger has shown a remarkable resurgence.\n\nIn his last four games, Soto has hit eight hits, showing clear signs of recovery.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Duel on the field<\/h2>\n\n\nOn Tuesday night at Citi Field, Soto hit a home run that created a tense moment on the field. Around the bases, Soto exchanged glances with Washington Nationals pitcher MacKenzie Gore.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;We were greeting each other. That&#8217;s all,&#8221; Soto commented with a smile, drawing laughter from those present.<\/p><cite>Juan Soto<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThis confrontation has a history behind it, as both players were part of a trade in 2022.\n\nGore, the Major League leader in strikeouts with 114, also commented on the situation.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;We always have this dynamic. Nothing bad, he just dominated me,&#8221; Gore said.<\/p><cite>MacKenzie Gore<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0611%2Fr1505196_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>&#8220;Nos est\u00e1bamos saludando. Eso es todo&#8221;, dijo Juan Soto sobre su intercambio de miradas con el lanzador de los Nacionales, MacKenzie Gore, con quien fue cambiado en el acuerdo de 2022 entre San Diego y Washington.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nSoto also connected a crucial double and made a throw from right field to help New York secure a 5-4 victory in 10 innings.\n\nIn his last 10 games, Soto has hit four home runs, totaling 12 in his first season with the Mets, after signing a record contract of $765 million for 15 years.\n\nThe four-time All-Star, who contributed to the Nationals&#8217; victory in the 2019 World Series, has reached base in his last 12 games, with a batting average of .341, eight RBIs, and an OPS of 1.225 during that period.\n\nOn Sunday, Soto had an outstanding performance against Colorado, getting three hits, three walks, and scoring three runs in a 13-5 victory, reaching base six times in a game for the first time in his career.\n\nHowever, in his first at-bat on Tuesday night, Soto was struck out by Gore, who threw him three consecutive sliders.\n\nIn the third episode, Soto got even, connecting a 2-2 slider 373 feet away for a solo home run that reduced New York&#8217;s deficit to 3-2.\n\n\u201cIt was just a great swing. Like I said, another mistake. I was waiting for mistakes. He made a mistake and I put the ball in play,\u201d Soto declared.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Soto regains his rhythm. After a complicated May that lowered his batting average to .224, the Mets of New York slugger has shown a remarkable resurgence. In his last four games, Soto has hit eight hits, showing clear signs of recovery. Duel on the field On Tuesday night at Citi Field, Soto hit a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[87,345,3885,347],"class_list":{"0":"post-9913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-home-run","9":"tag-juan-soto","10":"tag-mackenzie-gore","11":"tag-new-york-mets"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913","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=9913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}