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.

An MLB insider shut down a rumor about Juan Soto and the New York Mets that began just after the conclusion of the Subway Series vs. the Yankees.

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.

The Red Sox, too, were suitors for Soto last December, even if the pursuit of the free agent outfielder was portrayed elsewhere as an exclusively New York contest.

It got to a point that by Sunday, Soto had no interest in doing an agreed-upon in-game interview with ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball. According to a report from NJ.com, Soto simply was tired of being asked about Aaron Judge and the move to the Mets.

With the Yankees and Mets considered championship contenders in the season’s early going, a repeat of 2000 is within the realm of possibility.

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.

Over his first month in a Yankees uniform, Cody Bellinger was chasing results. Literally. Bellinger recognizes now that he was both expanding his zone and trying to do too much at the plate. That, simply put,