Fifty-one games into the season, Juan Soto is sparking chants of “M-V-P!” at Yankee Stadium.
“Way too early,” Soto said after his second two-homer game of the homestand led the New York Yankees over the Seattle Mariners 7-3 and stopped New York’s first two-game losing streak in three weeks.
Soto drove a full-count sinker into the visitors’ bullpen in left in the third for a two-run homer and a 4-0 lead, a 414-foot drive off Bryce Miller that hit the back wall on a hop. Soto connected on another sinker on Miller’s first pitch of the sixth inning, a 369-foot shot into the left-field stands.
That prompted the “M-V-P!” chorus from the crowd of 40,224.
“I love when when the Bronx gets behind our guys,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “Obviously showing their appreciation for him.”
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