Juan Soto’s New York Chapter Deepens Against Visiting Boston

Juan Soto in a Mets uniform is still a storyline that hasn’t fully settled into the wallpaper, and every time he steps into the box at Citi Field it carries a little extra electricity. Against Boston — one of the sport’s most historically weighted franchises — that current gets stronger.

Freddy Peralta gets the ball for New York, tasked with protecting a lineup anchored by Soto’s .297 average and 21 home runs. That’s a formidable combination of contact and power at the heart of the Mets order. Boston counters with Jarren Duran (13 HR) and Ceddanne Rafaela (.283) providing energy at the top, though the Red Sox rotation piece wasn’t listed — which itself is a quiet subplot.

The NYM -1.5 run-line signals Mets expectation at home, but Boston teams have a long institutional memory when it comes to not cooperating with expectations.

Soto’s ongoing New York narrative, a Mets rotation delivering, and a proud Red Sox club trying to spoil the evening — enough story here to call this one chunky on the Chunk Scale.