Soto has been in the midst of a rough stretch with the Amazin’s, in which he slowly jogged to first base during Sunday’s Subway Series finale in the Bronx and compounded that by watching a deep drive off the Green Monster at Fenway Park on Monday, limiting himself to a single.

Cody Bellinger lofted a high fly to deep right field, where Juan Soto positioned himself in front of an unfriendly Yankee Stadium crowd and came up short. Summed up the entire Subway Series, really.

It was no coincidence that Juan Soto declined an ESPN segment during Game 3 of the Subway Series. After the Mets lost the series, the Dominican slugger also chose not to speak with reporters. There was a reason behind all of it.

It's one thing for Juan Soto's numbers to be substandard in mid-May. It's another for him to not bust it out of the box after signing the biggest contract in sports history.

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The New York Post roasted Mets star Juan Soto with a scathing back cover headline criticizing his supposed lack of effort in recent games. The post The New York Post Torches Mets Star Juan Soto Over Effort in Brutal Back Cover Headline first appeared on Mediaite.

A throwing error by Pete Alonso allowed Jasson Dominguez to score the go-ahead run. Paul Goldschmidt added a run-scoring single.

New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza defended outfielder Juan Soto on Tuesday, a day after saying he would meet with the star over his perceived lack of hustle. "He's human. He's 26, man," Mendoza told reporters before a loss to the Boston Red Sox.