Juan Soto is back and already doing Juan Soto Things.
Monday, in the Washington Nationals’ 16-4 thrashing of the New York Mets, the Childish Bambino hit the longest home run of his young career.
Juan Soto made his grand return to the Washington Nationals on Tuesday and Wednesday he finally played in his first regular-season game of the MLB’s coronavirus-shortened season. Soto has missed the first few weeks of the year due to multiple positive COVID-19 tests.
And Soto debuted with his family in attendance. Well, sorta.
We just got another chilling reminder of how difficult it will be to play sports during a pandemic.
Washington Nationals star outfielder Juan Soto will not play tonight against the New York Yankees after testing positive for the coronavirus. ESPN’s Jeff Passan was the first to report the news.
The Nats and Caps’ friendship continues to be the greatest thing.
Wednesday, Juan Soto showed off his excitement about the NHL’s 24-team playoff announcement. The Nationals’ superstar outfielder took to Instagram to say, “We need hockey back 🥺🥺🥺.”
Within minutes, Jakub Vrana was made fun of by Carl Hagelin in the comments.
The Washington Nationals were supposed to celebrate their World Series championship last week at Nats Park. On Thursday (April 2), the Nats were going to reveal their championship banner during their home opener. The team then planned to present players with their championship rings two days later. The coronavirus pandemic robbed us of both of those games, but not the bobbleheads that were made to commemorate those events.
World Series champion Adam Eaton released a photo of FOCO’s latest series of Nationals’ championship bobbleheads on his Instagram account. This design celebrates the Nationals banner ceremony and championship rings and gives hints at what both will look like. Eaton is immortalized in resin as well as star players Max Scherzer (yes, both eyes are different colors), Stephen Strasburg, Juan Soto, Ryan Zimmerman, and Howie Kendrick.
The Washington Nationals’ World Series-winning season was filled with tons of incredible and iconic moments. Two of them have even made it into the upcoming video game MLB The Show 20.
Outfielder Juan Soto’s crotch-grabbing, between-pitch “Soto Shuffle” and the Nationals’ dugout dance parties were both featured in the trailer released on Wednesday.
Also, featured: Anthony Rendon in an Angels uniform. But let’s bury that until the end.
By Donya Abramo 1 year ago
During a pivotal fifth inning, 21-year-old outfielder Juan Soto sent a moon shot into the right-field stands of Minute Maid Park. The home run gave the Nationals a 3-2 lead. The run would ultimately prove to be the game-winner. As Soto lumbered down the first base line, he carried his bat down down with him before dropping it at his first base coach’s feet. Soto was mimicking Alex Bregman’s home run celebration in the first inning.
Soto explained why he did it in multiple interviews after the game.
The Washington Nationals have forced a Game 7 in the World Series after losing three consecutive games at home. The road team has improbably won every game of the World Series thus far – a new MLB record.
Stephen Strasburg pitched eight and a third innings and gave up two earned runs while striking out seven.
Alex Ovechkin scored his 668th and 669th career goals in a nice, four-point performance to lift the Capitals over the Leafs on Tuesday. Those two goals made Ovechkin tie and then pass Luc Robitaille in all-time goal scoring. Ovechkin is now 12th place on the list.
At the very same time in Houston, Juan Soto and Adam Eaton hit back-to-back home runs to to give the Nats 3-2 lead in the fifth inning of Game Six of the World Series.
DC synergy. Feel the power.
By Peter Hassett and Ian Oland 1 year ago
Juan Soto became the first Major League Baseball player ever to start a World Series game while celebrating his 21st birthday. And Nationals fans made sure to make him feel special on his special day.
During the second inning, Nationals fans in left field sang Happy Birthday to the Childish Bambion as he warmed up.
