Mets Notes: Juan Soto looks good in return; Bo Bichette to play shortstop in Francisco Lindor's absence?

Mets  manager Carlos Mendoza spoke about different aspects of the team snapping their 12-game losing streak after their 3-2 win over the Twins Juan Soto's first game back The Mets' lineup got a massive boost on Wednesday. They activated Soto from the IL and inserted him in the two-hole as the DH. He finished 1-for-3 with a walk, but the at-bats were Soto-like.

In his first AB, he launched a 96 mph fastball to deep center field. It sounded good off the bat -- after replay, it seemed he got just under it -- and went just 387 feet, but he was on top of the fastball. His second at-bat saw him hit a sharp liner to right field that went off his bat at 104.

3 mph. Two at-bats, two loud outs. He'd take a walk on six pitches in the fifth inning, and then led off the eighth with a single.

"That ball, that first at-bat, was going to be gone. During the summer, I think that’s out of here," Mendoza said of Soto's at-bats. "The quality overall, he looked really good.