Red Sox Edge Mets 3-1; Soto's Lack of Hustle Sparks Debate

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00:00First and foremost, the Boston Red Sox hand the New York Mets a 3-1 defeat.

00:06The Red Sox plating three runs against the Mets starter in Kodai Senga.

00:10The most he has allowed, that being three in a single start so far this year.

00:16Had never allowed, of course, more than two in his previous eight starts this season

00:21on the bump for the Mets.

00:23New York was a slight road favorite at minus 130.

00:26Total of nine does stay under.

00:29Big moment in the game, though, DRS, with the New York Mets trailing.

00:33Juan Soto blasts one off the left field wall, of course, the Green Monster.

00:37Because of the Green Monster, it did not sail out of the park.

00:41Juan Soto noticed he hit it hard, so he did not exactly sprint to first

00:46to try to get it maybe to be an extra base knock.

00:50Here was Carlos Mendoza, Mets manager after the game,

00:54on if he will say something to Juan Soto in Soto's response himself.

00:58Soto didn't bust it out of the box on that ball off the wall.

01:02Last night he had a play where he was a little slow getting out of it.

01:04Do you have to talk to him about any of that?

01:08Yeah.

01:08I mean, we'll talk to him about it.

01:10Tonight, obviously, if someone gets a hold of Juan and knows when he gets it,

01:18he's Juan, you know.

01:19And he thought he had it, you know, with the wind and all that.

01:23And in this ballpark or, you know, anywhere, but in particular in this one,

01:27with that wall right there, you've got to get out of the box.

01:30So, yeah, we'll discuss that.

01:32The last couple of nights you've had a couple of plays where you were slow

01:36getting out of the box.

01:37Is that something you have to be more aware of?

01:40No.

01:41I think being hustling me pretty hard.

01:44If you see it today, you can tell.

01:47All right.

01:48So, some contradictory statements there between Mets manager Carlos Mendoza

01:53and Juan Soto, the guy there who was, you know,

01:57not maybe hustling all that hard out of the batter's box last night

02:01or the night prior.

02:02DRS, what is your reaction to what we saw between the Mets

02:05and the Red Sox last night?

02:07Getting a lot of Robbins and Cano vibes there, right?

02:09Like, ah, if we give them all this money,

02:11is he going to hustle all that much at this point?

02:12But here's where the issue comes down to.

02:14Everybody makes mistakes in baseball, and you see it sometimes,

02:17where I thought I got one.

02:18I'm going to pimp it a little bit.

02:19Oh, no, it didn't leave the ballpark.

02:21Ended up at first base.

02:22Here's the difference.

02:23When you're at first base after that happens,

02:25most players are disgusted with themselves.

02:28Probably looking right into the dugout and, like,

02:29mouthing to the manager, I know I'm wrong.

02:32I am so wrong right now.

02:33I should have been on second base, and I'm not.

02:35But did you watch this play out?

02:37Round's first base goes back.

02:38Ready, Ben?

02:39Look at this.

02:39Ready?

02:42Boom.

02:43Boom.

02:44Loved it.

02:44That is base hit.

02:45Like, I got a base hit.

02:46Let me thank the Lord at this point.

02:48That's not the time for that, Juan.

02:49Like, you should be like, I can't believe I just did that.

02:52But you know what he did do?

02:53He did steal second base, which made me laugh.

02:55Like, I know I'm supposed to be on second, so let me steal second base.

02:58So, it sort of was like, hey, look, I made up for my error.

03:00But when everybody watched that, they know, the announcers know, the fans know for the Mets.

03:05You should have been on second base.

03:06But the fact that Cano just did his celebration as if he got a normal base hit,

03:10that's probably fired everybody up.

03:11But I understand where you're taking a look here and saying to yourself here for Soto

03:15and saying, you know what?

03:17I get it.

03:17And the manager, what is he supposed to do in the postgame?

03:19Like, you know what?

03:20That's 15-game suspension.

03:22Like, he's like, look, I'll talk to the guy.

03:23He probably knows.

03:24And then you see the postgame press conference here with Soto.

03:27And Soto's, like, sitting there going, like, I hustle, man.

03:29Like, that's not that.

03:30Like, it's just a, hey, look, man.

03:32I made a bonehead mistake.

03:33I should have been on second.

03:34I knew I was wrong.

03:36I stole second base to try to make up for it.

03:38I'm going to make sure it doesn't happen again, even Ben, if it happens again.

03:41That's what people get upset with, not acknowledging whatever just happened

03:44when you know you're in the wrong, which I do a lot, but hey.

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