Before his third at-bat on Friday night, the Citi Field crowd gave Juan Soto a standing ovation before the slugger hit an RBI single in the Mets' eventual 5-4 win over the Cardinals.

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Soto didn’t hear the restless crowd, he told The Post. He was focused on the Mets, on his at-bats, on the “couple rockets right in front of people” that turned into outs. Any frustration Soto — in the first season of a 15-year deal — has over his .221 average gets balanced by knowledge that struggles are just “part of the game.”