Juan Soto greeted with standing jeer in Yankee Stadium return, then touches heart with helmet

NEW YORK — Greeted by a rare standing jeer in his return to Yankee Stadium, Juan Soto stepped out of the batter’s box, took off his helmet, tipped it to the crowd and touched it against his heart.

NEW YORK — Greeted by a rare standing jeer in his return to Yankee Stadium, Juan Soto stepped out of the batter’s box, took off his helmet, tipped it to the crowd and touched it against his heart.

Joking around in the Mets dugout, teammates suggested the animated response.

“I just did it,” Soto recalled after the game. “The guys loved it.”

After spurning the Steinbrenner family’s fortune for the even more immense money of Mets owner Steve Cohen, Soto went 0 for 2 with three walks in a 6-2 Subway Series loss on Friday night, his first game back in the Bronx since last fall’s World Series-ending loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

When Soto jogged to right field for the bottom of the first wearing bright orange wristbands, many of the Bleacher Creatures turned their backs on him. Some fans chanted “Overrated!”