Juan Soto has first career 3-homer game in Yankees-White Sox

CHICAGO — Juan Soto tracked the flight of his deep drive toward the right-field seats in the seventh inning on Tuesday night, nearly cracking a smile before flipping his bat in the air and beginning his third trot of the night around the bases.

The Yankees’ generational talent enjoyed a contest to remember, notching the first three-homer game of his illustrious young career to help his club build a lead over the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field.

Soto launched an opposite-field two-run shot in the third inning off Jonathan Cannon, hit another homer off Cannon in the fifth, then crushed a solo blast in the seventh facing Fraser Ellard.

Now with 33 homers and 85 RBIs in 117 games this season, Soto enjoyed his 23rd career multihomer game and his sixth of the year, having belted two homers against the Rangers two days earlier in New York. Soto’s 23 multihomer games before turning 26 are the second most in Major League history behind Mel Ott (24).

Soto is the second Yankee this year to have a three-homer game, joining Ben Rice. Aaron Judge achieved the feat twice last season.

This spring, Soto mentioned that one of his goals was to complete his tour around the Majors by homering in all 30 current ballparks. He needed five then; Guaranteed Rate Field was one of the parks Soto lacked, as well as Cleveland’s Progressive Field and Anaheim’s Angel Stadium.

With those three checked off, Soto now just needs round-trippers at Texas’ Globe Life Field (Sept. 2-4) and Seattle’s T-Mobile Park (Sept. 17-19).