Yahoo Sports senior MLB analysts Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman discuss the New York slugger's extra innings home run to push the Bronx Bombers back to the Fall Classic. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Here comes Juan Soto and now we engage in a, a at bat that has already been watched a billion times and every time you watch it, you enjoy, appreciate something different.

I love how Juan Soto confirmed every, I mean, he was everything that it looked like he was like, yes, that is what happened.

I you could see him saying like I got this like I have you.

This will be this at bat will end in my favor.

Sorry, Hunter Gaddis.

And by that seventh pitch, he had only thrown him changeups and sliders.

He finally gives him the fastball.

Not a bad pitch, right?

This was not a mistake.

I mean, I guess the mistake is throwing a fastball at all, but he got it up and out.

And um, doesn't matter when you're fa when you're facing one of the greatest hitters of all time, even though he doesn't turn 26 until Friday, he never went off the fastball.

That's what's so remarkable about this at bat.

Soto is hunting fastball the whole time and a lot of hitters who would come up in that spot, hunting heat would let the soft stuff fool them.

Whereas SOTO is good enough to just battle it to just wait it out to foul it off to take the pitch.

He never comes off the fastball.

He, even as he's only getting some stuff, he's, he knows that if the at back goes long enough, he will get a heater and when he gets it, he does not miss it.

There were a lot of Yankees fans in the building for this game.

Five, like more so than three and four.

And that makes all the sense in the world and it, it was loud, it was loud when, when this ball, uh, went out for SOTO and, uh, it was amazing.

And then in Montes, Soto, we, you know, we were lucky enough to be there when he had his first big postseason moment in that wild card game against Milwaukee.

That is still one of the loudest things I've ever heard.

Probably, um, this certainly wasn't that loud because, you know, the stadium is only 20% Yankees fans instead of, you know, 98% nationals fans.

But it was truly an incredible, incredible scene and, and SOTO who had not that he hadn't already had some moments this postseason, but he is, he is a, a special, special, special person and player always in control, he's just always in control of an at bat.

The at bat belongs to him.

And if you're a pitcher, you're just a participant, you are a foil

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