{"id":479340,"date":"2025-08-20T08:35:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/juan-soto-hits-his-31st-home-run-in-mets-victory-over-the-nationals\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:35:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:35:49","slug":"juan-soto-hits-his-31st-home-run-in-mets-victory-over-the-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/juan-soto-hits-his-31st-home-run-in-mets-victory-over-the-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Soto hits his 31st home run in Mets&#8217; victory over the Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<strong>Washington.<\/strong> \u2013 Dominican star outfielder <strong>Juan Soto<\/strong> once again made his power felt at <strong>Nationals Park<\/strong>, this time as a rival, by hitting his number <strong>31 home run of the season<\/strong> in the New York Mets&#8217; victory over the Washington Nationals.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/ohtani-iguala-la-cima-jonronera-de-la-liga-nacional-con-44-call-firma-actuacion-estelar-con-4-hits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ohtani ties for the home run lead in the National League with 44; Call signs stellar performance with 4 hits<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nSoto&#8217;s hit traveled <strong>408 feet<\/strong> and left with a speed of <strong>107 miles per hour<\/strong> through left field, after a pitch from the left-hander <strong>Konnor Pilkington<\/strong> in the seventh inning.\n\nThe Mets&#8217; offensive didn&#8217;t stop there. <strong>Jeff McNeil, Mark Vientos, and Brett Baty<\/strong> also went yard, rounding out an explosive day that left the Nationals&#8217; pitching with no answer.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Juan Soto clubs a home run back at Nationals Park \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eXDGMrk8IT\">pic.twitter.com\/eXDGMrk8IT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1957960798241976820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The metropolitan team dominated the match from start to finish, showing a fiery lineup that knew how to take advantage of every opportunity. With this triumph, the Mets remain in the fight for a <strong>Wild Card<\/strong> spot in the National League and are <strong>5.5 games<\/strong> behind the first place in the <strong>Eastern Division<\/strong>, occupied by the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n\n\nSoto, who was a star for several seasons with the Nationals and a key player in the 2019 World Series victory, continues to show his ability to shine even against his former team, reaffirming his leading role in the Mets&#8217; lineup.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington. \u2013 Dominican star outfielder Juan Soto once again made his power felt at Nationals Park, this time as a rival, by hitting his number 31 home run of the season in the New York Mets&#8217; victory over the Washington Nationals. You may be interested in: Ohtani ties for the home run lead in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":479342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,15169,39774,13766,40853],"class_list":["post-479340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-juan-soto","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20Hi","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/17516600557469.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/17516600557469.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}