Juan Soto exits game with right calf tightness in big Mets concern

· New York Post

The Mets are holding their breath.

Juan Soto exited Friday’s 10-3 win over the Giants after the top of the first with right calf tightness and was replaced in left field by Tyrone Taylor.

Soto singled in his lone at-bat and later appeared to grimace as he went first to third on a Bo Bichette RBI single.

Juan Soto of the New York Mets hits a single against the San Francisco Giants in the top of the first inning at Oracle Park on April 3, 2026 in San Francisco, California. Getty Images

He remained in the game before getting thrown out at home on a Brett Baty double play, but Taylor entered for defense in the bottom half of the first.

Manager Carlos Mendoza said after the victory that Soto would undergo imaging on Saturday.

Soto, one of the few Mets consistently hitting early this season, extended his hitting streak to eight games and now has a .355 average and a .928 OPS.

Taylor went 0-for-4 with a strikeout as his replacement, but the Mets had one of the best offensive outputs of the early season, scoring 10 runs on 15 hits. Francisco Alvarez hit two homers, and Marcus Semien went deep for the first time as a Met.