The SNY sales space didn’t let Juan Soto off the hook.
Gary Cohen nor Keith Hernandez took too kindly to Soto’s hustle out of the field on his lengthy fly-ball single off the Inexperienced Monster in Monday’s 3-1 loss to the Pink Sox on Boston — particularly after a state of affairs in Sunday’s loss to the Yankees, the place Soto didn’t run arduous on a play by which many individuals thought he may beat out the throw.
“Didn’t run arduous out of the field may need price himself a base,” Gary Cohen stated throughout Monday’s broadcast of the play the earlier evening, earlier than turning the main target onto the present state of affairs.
“He and [Pete] Alonso each have been responsible of considering that the ball was going out to left subject and never working arduous to first base,” Cohen stated. “Alonso acquired thrown out at second and Soto barely acquired to first.”
Simply earlier than Cohen made that remark, Keith Hernandez stated that “he’s performed right here sufficient” to know that he didn’t get sufficient of the ball for it to be a house run.
Soto did attain second base on a stolen base, which Cohen joked was as a result of “he knew he was alleged to be on second.”
“However it’s half of a bigger sample with Soto,” Cohen added. “He’s not working arduous on a regular basis and that is one thing he actually wants to wash up.”
Soto has been going through higher scrutiny for the reason that finish of the weekend’s Subway Collection sequence, after he was roughly a non-factor in his first journey again to the Bronx after leaving within the offseason for the Mets.
Soto had a stroll and a stolen base to start out the sequence earlier than going 1-for-10 via the remainder of the three-game set.
So as to add to that, Soto drew the ire of Mets followers when he was seen very blatantly not working arduous on the eighth-inning hit that would have helped change the course of the 8-2 loss to the Yankees.
The sport was tied at 2 on the time.
