The Subway Series between the New York Mets and New York Yankees is consistently one of the most compelling matchups in all of baseball. But this year had significantly more buzz with the league's new highest-paid player,

Soto "flies on the team plane" with his teammates for road games and does not have a "private-jet provision in his contract" for himself or his family.

"I think I've been hustling pretty hard. If you see it today, you could tell," Soto told reporters after the game.