The highly anticipated matchup between the Mets and Yankees this weekend had a major storyline in place: how Juan Soto will be welcomed at Yankee Stadium.
After helping the Yankees make it to their first World Series since 2009, Soto spurned the team from the Bronx to sign with the Mets in the offseason. Now, in his first game back at Yankee Stadium since Game 5 of last year’s World Series, the Yankee faithful gave him a reaction, rather befitting of the circumstances.
Batting second with one out in the top of the first, Soto came up to the plate.
Soto tipped his helmet to the crowd and mouthed “thank you.”
“I haven’t heard anything like this,” SNY play-by-play Gary Cohen said on the broadcast.
Soto took a five-pitch walk and never swung the bat once. The Mets fans in attendance cheered as Soto took his base.
The reception for Juan Soto as he comes to the plate for his first at-bat at Yankee Stadium pic.twitter.com/xcFK5lp33Z
— SNY (@SNYtv) May 16, 2025
“It’s going to be 50,000 against one,” Soto told the Post, earlier this week. “They’re going to try to get on me, you know,” he said. “It’s part of it.”
If you listen closely to the broadcast, “F— you Soto” chants could be heard from the Yankees faithful. And when he took the field for the first time, he received the Bronx jeers from the crowd in the right field bleachers, and they all turned their backs to him.
Juan Soto goes out to right field for the first time tonight.
Some of the bleacher creatures turned their backs to him as he took the field. pic.twitter.com/1NxxofO1na
— SNY (@SNYtv) May 16, 2025
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