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Juan Soto returned to right field on Saturday, for the first time since April 19th, and showed no signs of an issue the left shoulder issue which landed him on the 10-Day IL on April 20th, though it wasn’t really tested with a long or rushed throw.

In Sunday’s series finale with the New York Yankees in the Bronx, Soto was back in there as the DH, but his manager said that it wasn’t a sign of any problems with the shoulder.

“No, we planned on it being that way,” Davey Martinez explained.

“We got him out there, he’s going to [DH today] because we can DH him.