World Series: Juan Soto Hit a Baseball on the Damn Railroad Tracks in Houston

The Washington Nationals scored five earned runs off Gerrit Cole in Game 1 of the 2019 World Series in Houston.

This accomplishment seems almost unthinkable, but we have the official box score to prove it.

The 5-4 Nats win has wrested home-field advantage away from the Astros, regardless of what goes down in Game 2.

However, we're not here to talk about that.

 

No, we need to convene a symposium on Juan Soto's opposite field solo homer in the top of the fourth inning.

Words can only besmirch it, so we're just going to show you:

 

Yikes.

Here's an angle that does it a bit more justice:

 

As are we.

And look where the terrified baseball finally came to rest:

 

Its new home will be much nicer and kinda historical:

 

You may be wondering about the distance on that beauty:

 

Yeah, that can't possibly be correct.

 

There, all fixed.

Here's the game that was wrapped around it:

 

Just know if that was some punk kid admiring what he thought was a bomb instead of the 2017 Series MVP, the interwebs would've gone nuclear by now.

But it wasn't, so it didn't.

Turning Soto's shot into mythology was enough for one night.