Juan Soto's first game with the Mets didn't live up to the hype, but his second one is starting to after he smashed his first home run of the year.

In his second at-bat in his second game with the Mets, Juan Soto left the ballpark with a big home run against the Houston Astros on Friday night.

Juan Soto hit his first of presumably many home runs for the Mets when he connected against the Astros on Friday night at Daikin Field. The right fielder delivered a solo homer in the third inning off Houston right-hander Hunter Brown to extend the Mets' lead to 3-0.

Superstar Juan Soto made his debut for the Mets against the Astros after signing his record-breaking 15-year, $765 million contract with New York this winter. Overall, his first game as a Met can undoubtedly be described as disappointing.

With a chance to make a late splash in his New York Mets debut, Juan Soto came up empty. After signing the biggest contract in baseball history last offseason, the slugger came to bat with two runners aboard and the Mets down by two in Thursday.

There isn’t much controversy over who’s the most impactful acquisition/pickup/hiring over the past year. It has to be Juan Soto.

On the first day of his first season with the Mets, of course it all came down to Juan Soto. A sleepy-turned-suspenseful Opening Day evolved into a familiar scene for the Mets, who never held a lead in the 3-1 loss to the Astros but brought the potential go-ahead run to the plate in each of the last two innings.

Juan Soto was up with a chance to continue the Mets' ninth-inning rally on Thursday but struck out, ending the team's hopes to steal a win on Opening Day.

Juan Soto signed the largest contract in professional sports history this offseason when he agreed to a 15-year, $765 deal with the Mets in December. After inking that deal, there was a new kind of attention on the Soto,