Though the atmosphere paled in comparison to Friday’s Subway Series opener, anytime a play involved Soto, the Mets’ mercenary who left the Yankees for $765 million this offseason, from an at-bat to a caught fly ball in right field, the Bronx came alive.

Juan Soto made an emotionally charged return to Yankee Stadium on Friday where he was greeted by a cacophony of boos and his new team, the New York Mets, succumbed to a 6-2 loss against his old team,

Many within a sellout crowd of 47,510 — and particularly in the ever-lively sections 203 and 204 — again booed, heckled and jeered Juan Soto throughout the Mets’ 3-2 win, just as they did in