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Juan Soto puts Mets up for bully successful 10th inning (0:29)
The Mets travel backmost from a 6-2 shortage successful the eighth inning to decision the Mets 7-6 successful 10 innings. (0:29)
Associated Press
Jul 9, 2025, 12:51 AM ET
BALTIMORE -- The New York Mets see Juan Soto to beryllium a bona fide All-Star, contempt the snub helium received from those who selected the National League squad for the Midsummer Classic connected July 15.
Soto, successful his archetypal twelvemonth with the Mets, has performed good capable to gain the respect of his manager and teammates. In their opinion, he's deserving of a spot successful the All-Star Game adjacent week successful Atlanta.
"He's an All-Star for us," manager Carlos Mendoza said Tuesday nighttime aft the Mets bushed Baltimore 7-6. "It's frustrating, but I'm hoping successful the adjacent mates of days we perceive thing and helium makes it."
Soto drove successful the winning tally with a crisp azygous connected the archetypal transportation of the 10th inning. That capped a nighttime successful which helium went 3 for 5 to rise his batting mean to .269 with 21 homers and 52 RBIs.
Soto has walked 72 times, by acold the astir successful the majors, but helium tin besides lash retired astatine a pitcher erstwhile necessary.
"He's got a beauteous bully knowing of what the pitchers are trying to bash to him," Mendoza said. "There is his consciousness of the game, he's going to spot pitchers. There are times erstwhile he's going to beryllium aggressive. Tonight was 1 of those nights. First transportation successful the 10th, he's attacking."
Soto made the All-Star squad arsenic a subordinate of the Nationals, Padres and Yankees each twelvemonth since 2021. The streak appears to beryllium over. But his teammates judge helium deserves to go.
"What helium done each twelvemonth is conscionable incredible, and the results are bully enough," Mets starting pitcher Clay Holmes said. "The consistency he's showed up with, astatine the at-bats he's taken, is much than an All-Star. He's 1 of the champion successful the crippled and a large portion of our lineup."
Soto seems alternatively philosophical astir the snub.
"Sometimes, you're going to marque it and sometimes you don't," helium told reporters aft Sunday's nonaccomplishment to the Yankees. "It's conscionable portion of baseball."
