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On Sunday Night Baseball, the Mets were tortured by Matt Chapman for a good bit of time, but a splash hit and the best game of his life from Ronny Mauricio and a Juan Soto homer for good measure put the Mets ahead and, eventually, in the win column, 5-3.

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One of the coolest things in Major League Baseball is when someone crushes a home run in San Francisco that exits Oracle Park and lands in McCovey Cove. There's just something very rewarding about seeing a ball land in the bay beyond the right field stands.

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Soto has now reached 25 homers in a season with four different teams. He did it with the Nationals, Padres and Yankees before the Mets. He's the first player ever to have a 25-HR season with four different teams before turning 29 years old, per OptaStats.

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