{"id":206663,"date":"2026-04-22T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206663\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:48:08","slug":"juan-soto-returns-to-the-new-york-mets-lineup-amid-12-game-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206663\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Soto Returns To the New York Mets&#8217; Lineup Amid 12-game Slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\"><a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/juan-soto-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juan Soto<\/a> is back in the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/new-york-mets-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a>&#8216; lineup \u2014 and boy do they need him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">The star slugger was reinstated from the 10-day injured list with the reeling Mets on a 12-game losing streak heading into Wednesday night&#8217;s game against the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/minnesota-twins-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> at Citi Field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">Soto, who missed 15 games with a right calf strain, was set to bat second as the designated hitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">To open a roster spot, third-string catcher <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/hayden-senger-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hayden Senger<\/a> was optioned to Triple-A Syracuse following Tuesday night&#8217;s 5-3 loss to Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">New York (7-16) had been outscored 67-22 during the skid while batting .194 with a .284 slugging percentage. The slide began with a 7-2 loss to Arizona on April 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">Soto exited early from a 10-3 victory at San Francisco on April 3, and the Mets won their next three games without him before descending into a tailspin. It&#8217;s their longest slide since losing 12 straight games in August 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">New York had not dropped 13 in a row since a 15-game skid in August 1982. The club record is 17 consecutive defeats during the franchise&#8217;s inaugural season in 1962.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">Reporting by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juan Soto is back in the New York Mets&#8216; lineup \u2014 and boy do they need him. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[81942,20390,996,16861,9,11,320,10],"class_list":["post-206663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-hayden-senger","tag-juan-soto","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}