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Juan Soto responds to hustle critics after blast off Green Monster results in single: 'I think I've been hustling pretty hard'

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These are not the questions Juan Soto wants to face from New York media.

On Sunday, the New York Mets slugger took heat for not sprinting on a potential ground-ball single that instead resulted in an out. Even worse — it came in an 8-2 loss to the New York Yankees.

The game was tied at 2-2 in the eighth inning when Soto recorded the first out of the top of the inning.

"Everything about it in slow-motion," said ESPN's Karl Ravech on the play-by-play call.

On Monday, Soto took even more heat for a high-profile lack of hustle.