WATCH: Yankees slugger Juan Soto hits three home runs in a game for first time in career

Soto went deep three times Tuesday against the White Sox

By Matt Snyder Aug 13, 2024 at 11:01 pm ET• 1 min read

Though Juan Soto entered Tuesday's action with 190 career home runs in 895 games, he'd never hit three in a game. The 25-year-old Yankees slugger did so for the first time on Tuesday in a 4-1 Yankees win against the White Sox. 

Soto had all four RBI for his team and scored three of the four Yankees runs in the game. 

Much of the attention heading into the game was focused on Aaron Judge looking to become the fastest player ever to 300 career home runs. Instead, Soto kind of stole the thunder from his fellow All-Star outfielder while Judge will wait for No. 300. 

Soto's first homer: 

And then the second: 

Now, after that second one, Soto wasn't in new territory. Not even close. This was his 23rd career two-homer game. It's the sixth time he did so this season. He had five two-homer games last year, so he has now set a new career high in multi-home run games. It hasn't been too long since he went deep twice in the same game, either, as he just did so on Sunday.