Juan Soto has reached a number of thin statistical air in his first season with the Mets.
The slugger of $ 765 million became the first player in team history who compiled at least 40 home runs and 30 stolen bases in one season with his solo explosion in the seventh inning on Saturday, but the performance became more a footnote as the Mets Bullpen still a Late Late Bilde, 3-2 for the ranges, 3-2 for the Rangers, 3-2 for the Rangers, 3-2 for the Rangers, 3-2 for the Rangers, 3-2 for the Rangers.
“It’s great … it’s really impressive,” Soto said, “but we have bigger things for us that we have to go outside and have to get it.”
Howard Johnson had 41 stealing for the Mets in 1989 with 36 home runs, but nobody had ever completed the performance with at least 40 homers.
Soto, who has a career with 32 steals, also only became the fifth player in the franchis history who went 40 times deep. He joined teammate Pete Alonso (three times), Todd Hundley, Carlos Beltran and Mike Piazza.
It marks the 16th time in baseball history that a player has at least 40 gay and 30 steals in one season – a group that includes Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Shohei Ohtani.
“For me it means a lot,” Soto said earlier this week when he was asked about the possibility. “It is part of the journey of your career. But in the end you just have to think about the team. If you achieve that, what we try to do here, the team is as much as I can do.”
Sotos 40th, a solo blast to right off texas leffty hoby milner in the seventh extended the Mets lead to 2-0. But the Rangers came back to even the score with two points against Tyler Rogers and Edwin Díaz in the eighth before they later added the Go-Ahead Run against Díaz One inning to extend the Mets Losing Streak.
The 26-year-old Soto registered a career-high 41 home runs in his only season at the Yankees in 2024. He had never managed more than 12 stolen bases in a season in his first seven years in the Majors, but he has been efficiently successful on 32 of 35 attempts (91.4 percent) with the METS.
“It is all the hard work we have put since the start of the season,” said Soto, again the first base coach Antoan Richardson credit for his career-high 32 steals. “Great work by Antoan. I really appreciate what he did to me and how he worked with me.”
Soto also hit a single with one in the ninth inning with the Mets that lagged behind with one run, but the Mets were not again able to win a victory.
“One hundred percent … This is a Playoff team,” Soto said. “We just have to stay with our calm, stay with our heads and believe in ourselves and believe in what we have.
“Certainly, we believe in every man here, do our best and try to get through. We play our A – every night, it just doesn’t go our way.”
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