{"id":345567,"date":"2026-09-13T12:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T12:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345567\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T12:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T12:58:44","slug":"carson-benge-doesnt-impress-juan-soto-for-all-the-right-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345567\/","title":{"rendered":"Carson Benge &#8216;doesn\u2019t impress&#8217; Juan Soto for all the right reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carson Benge decided to show off for the neighbors Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s already well established in Queens that the rookie outfielder is a multitool threat, but that might be lost on fans in The Bronx unaware of the scene across town.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On a day of Mets offensive firepower, Benge resonated loudly with a 2-for-5 performance that included a homer in the team\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/12\/sports\/mets-use-six-homers-to-dominate-gerrit-cole-yankees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">12-2 victory over the Yankees<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If his bat wasn\u2019t enough, Benge also robbed Aaron Judge by racing into the right-center gap in the eighth for a full-extension diving catch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Benge homered against Gerrit Cole in the third inning before delivering an RBI single in the sixth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Benge] doesn\u2019t impress me anymore,\u201d Juan Soto said. \u201cI think he\u2019s a superstar. He\u2019s doing things that superstars do every day. Every day he will find a way to make us smile with the swing, with the running, the throws. It\u2019s incredible.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a needed contribution from Benge, whose NL Rookie of the Year candidacy had cooled in recent weeks. <\/p>\n<p>He began the day with a .577 OPS in September, his first real offensive drop-off following a torrid summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.46494993;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40793303\" width=\"864\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/new-york-mets-right-fielder-140836330_6a41c2.jpg\" alt=\"New York Mets right fielder Carson Benge smiles while rounding the bases after hitting a home run.\" class=\"wp-image-40793303\"\/>A smiling Carson Benge rounds the bases after belting a solo home run off Gerrit Cole during the third inning of the Mets\u2019 12-2 blowout win over the Yankees on Sept. 12, 2026 at the Stadium.  Bill Kostroun for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Interim manager Andy Green said he is hopeful that Brett Baty will start Sunday\u2019s series finale; he was available Saturday off the bench <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/12\/sports\/brett-baty-avoids-major-knee-injury-scare-but-still-sits-in-mets-loss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but did not play<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Baty is recovering from knee discomfort he sustained while running to first base last week in Miami.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still felt [Saturday] he needed a little bit more time before putting nine innings on him,\u201d said Green, who inserted Nick Morabito in left field and moved Soto to DH.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Robert Stock will remain as part of a six-man rotation and pitch Wednesday against the Orioles, according to Green. The right-hander last pitched Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mets\u2019 six home runs were their most in a Subway Series game. <\/p>\n<p>The previous high was five, both times at Yankee Stadium (in 2018 and \u201924).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carson Benge decided to show off for the neighbors Saturday.\u00a0 It\u2019s already well established in Queens that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6595,20,9,11,320,10,321,319,78605],"class_list":["post-345567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-carson-benge","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-subway-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345567","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=345567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}