This season, Soto is being outshined by star teammates Pete Alonso and Francisco Lindor. The former is slashing .301/.408/.557 with nine homers and 37 RBI, while the latter is slashing .279/.347/.463 with nine homers and 28 RBI. The Mets have two more games against the Red Sox before hosting the Los Angeles Dodgers.

After losing two of three games to the New York Yankees, the New York Mets fell to the Boston Red Sox on Monday evening at Fenway Park. The 3-1 loss puts New York percentage points behind the Philadelphia Phillies for the NL East's top spot, which the Mets had occupied for several weeks.

3) Hunter Dobbins made a couple of big pitches. With two runners on base, Dobbins got Juan Soto to ground into a 4-6-3 double play to end the third inning. Dobbins also struck out Tyrone Taylor looking with runners at the corners and one out in the fifth.

As manager Carlos Mendoza’s crew has been reminded all too often lately, there is a need to drive in runners on base. And an occasional jolt over the fence wouldn’t hurt, either.

Soto, who was supposed to be mic'd up during the second inning but canceled about "45 minutes" before game time, according to play-by-play man Karl Ravech.

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It’s one thing for Juan Soto’s numbers to be substandard in mid-May. It’s another for him to not bust it out of the box after signing the biggest contract in sports history.