Juan Soto goes from hurt to home run in two pitches, a breakdown

Juan Soto knows baseball. He knows drama. He knows theater. This breakdown is brought to you by DraftKings. Juan Soto last week put on a show against the Royals. Yankees are down 1-0, tying runs on first go-ahead run. Is Soto, takes that fastball above the zone. He does a little head nod, like, oh, okay, strike if you say so. After that, Cole Reagans is going to hit him with the slider, and Soto just takes that. Sees it well enough, says nah, because that's what Reagans is trying to do. He's trying to tunnel those two pitches off so he can get batters chasing. Soto said, not going to chase it, not interested, not I. 1-1 now, and Reagans goes with the curve, and Soto's like, okay, that was slow enough. I kind of, that lit my eyes up. Wanted to swing it, two-strike count now, and what does Reagans do? The catcher slides to the right, and he throws a slider again below the zone. Soto says, nah, dude, nah, I'm seeing that. You want to bring it in the zone? I'll swing at it, because I'm seeing it well. Oh, there we go, in the zone, swings at it. Oh, no, hits his foot. He's jumping around. Don't be in a lot of pain. Yankees fans are watching saying, oh, this is bad. Don't be like a broken bone on the top of your foot. Don't, we've seen it. We know what it is. Can't have Juan Soto get hurt. Yankees stadium gets hushed. Everyone gets scared. Trainer comes out and checks on him, says, are you okay? He says, my foot hurts. Trainer says, where? He says, the foot, the foot right here, up there, two fingers, three fingers, four fingers, there, found the spot. Yup, no down there. I don't know. He's got the guard on his foot in that spot in case he gets hit there. They're checking on him. Here's a replay. Watch this. He hits this one and bam, right into the top between the tongue of his shoe and the padding on his shin. Just the perfect placement to get hit and hurt and hop around and just fill us with worry. Look at the ball spinning. That's cool, right? There's the slider spin. Just did not barrel it up. Hit it straight down into his foot. Not good right here. Just right into the spot with no padding. Kind of crazy. Cool camera work, huh? The ball, you can see the laces spin. You can see the anguish on his face. Oh no, we don't like that. We don't like that. Boone says, are you okay? He's like, I'm going to stay in the game because I'm Juan Soto. I play every game. Hey Riz, I bet you he goes deep, huh? Bet you he throws this one way up top. Yeah, okay. He's excited about it. Oh, Volpe's getting in Rizzo's face. The next pitch, Coleriggins goes change up in the zone. Oh, that guy loved it. Just what a spoil job from Soto. A lot of guys don't have that in their bag. They don't have that club because they're just doing a swing. Soto's got such good back control that he's like, shit, bam, spoiled, spoiled, spoiled. Is that a strike? Um, says, yeah, it's probably going to be a strike. Says, okay. So now he says, what should I go back to? He's seeing the slider really well. He swung at that curve ball. Let's go back to the curve. Bam! Oh, juicy two-two curve ball into the crowd. Rizzo and Wells start slapping the shit out of each other. Wells wants a high five. Rizzo's just throwing slaps. They kind of connect there. Wells doesn't like it at all. The rest of the dugout's going crazy. Soto watched it the whole way. He loved it, loved it. Let's go! Come on! Look at this. Ooh, hopping around. Foot still hurts. Ginger, yeah. Let's go! Yeah! That's drama. That's theater. That's a knuckle curve. That got a lot of plate. A lot of spin. Bam! Catcher's like, oh. Umpire's like, ooh. This fan just perfectly placed, and he does not grab it. His friend's going to look at him like, oh, bro! What the hell? Does Juan Soto know drama at all? Does Juan Soto know drama or what? Hurt. The whole crowd's scared. Two pitches later, Yanks got the lead. He's not hurt. This one was brought to you by DraftKings. Thank you to DraftKings for sponsoring the breakdowns. Thank you to you guys for watching them. Appreciate you very much. Goodbye, farewell. I'll be there soon.