Davey Martinez talked, after Juan Soto went 1 for 4 with a ground-rule double to left-center and a walk in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader with the Colorado Rockies in D.C., about positive signs from his 23-year-old slugger, who was off to a slow-ish start at the plate for the second consecutive season.
“He’s staying on the ball a lot better,” Martinez said, “... he’s starting to drive the ball up the middle the other way and that’s good to see, now it’s just a matter of, one, the balls he hits hard, he starts getting rewarded for them, and two, to continue to do that, don’t change anything, just stay the course, stay in the middle of the field, and the hits, the homers, all the stuff, the RBIs will come.