Yankees right fielder, Juan Soto slid hard into the right field foul wall in the seventh inning of the game in Seattle attempting to snag a foul ball. He appeared to slip going into his slide and his legs got caught up awkwardly underneath him. Training staff and teammates attended to him while umpires discussed whether or not a fan had interfered with the ball’s trajectory. After a pretty lengthy time, Soto got back up and walked around gingerly. His pants were torn but he stayed in the game. Soto and Aaron Judge even talked with one another in centerfield watching the replay on the T-Mobile jumbotron.
The Yankees Loss Was Anti-Climactic
Following Soto’s scary spill in the field, the Yankees’ 3-2 loss to the Seattle Mariners seemed fairly unimportant. The Yankees clinched a playoff spot the previous night and seemed flat in the aftermath. The YES Network crew spent more time recalling the celebration in the locker room than they did actually calling the game at hand.
All the scoring took place in the first three innings. The Mariners jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first on a sequence of sacrifice flies and fielding errors by the Yankees, punctuated by a dink or a dunk here or there. The Yankees responded with a Jazz Chisholm two-run homer in the third. The rest of the game was quiet, except for the Soto wall collision.