In his 56th Citi Field at bat, Soto finally gave the crowd what it wanted – a 391-foot sixth-inning blast to left that cut the Diamondbacks lead to 2-1. His 399-foot bomb to left off Kevin Ginkel in the eighth got them to within 3-2 and almost brought the Mets back from the dead.

Access the Mets beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets. Try it free It took until the 16th game — and included some murmurs and groans from fans along the way as a slow start kept dragging on — but Juan Soto finally cleared the Citi Field fence Thursday.

Juan Soto’s homer-less drought at Citi Field is over. And he liked it so much, he did it twice. In his 56th at-bat in his new home, the slugger launched one over the left-field fence for his first Citi Field home run as a Met. It went 391 feet to left-center field. Then, in his next at-bat, he hit another one, 399 feet.