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.

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