The video was supposed to be about five minutes long, a straightforward tale of a complicated journey: Juan Soto is a Met, Mets fans are excited, and this is how it happened. But nothing stays small in Flushing these days — not the drama,

Then, in the bottom of the third inning, Soto homered off a first pitch from Sonny Gray, drilling the ball over the right-field fence and directly at the heckler, who tried to catch the ball but fell down in the process.