Juan Soto went 2 for 3 with a walk and a K in Friday’s series opener against the Chicago Cubs, leaving him with a .309/.428/.553 line on the season.
It wasn’t the hits that Nationals’ skipper Davey Martinez was talking about after the first of three in Wrigley, however, but the back pick by Cubbies’ catcher Willson Contreras in the eighth that caught Soto off first base and short-circuited a potentially rally before it could get started.
Bryce Harper and Soto took back-to-back walks from now-former Nats’ reliever Brandon Kintzler to start the eighth, but Contreras picked Soto off, with Carl Edwards, Jr.