Juan Soto hit his first two home runs at Citi Field as a member of the Mets on Thursday afternoon, but the Arizona Diamondbacks earned a 4-2 win to hand New York a rare home series loss. The Diamondbacks won the final two games of the three-game series -- the first time the Mets have lost back-to-back contests at Citi Field since July 27-28, when they fell to the Atlanta Braves. New York, which is 13-3 at Citi Field this season, had its franchise-record streak of 10 straight home series wins snapped. Zac Gallen (2-4) allowed only two hits over six innings. He didn't allow a runner past first base until Soto's opposite field 391-foot blast with one out in the sixth. Soto then hit a 399-foot shot to almost the same area of left-centerfield off Kevin Ginkel in the eighth. Soto entered Thursday batting .241 with four doubles, 10 walks and eight strikeouts in his first 15 home games since signing a 15-year deal worth $765 million last December. He had 12 homers in 35 games at Citi Field as a visiting player. Ginkel wriggled out of a second-and-third jam in the eighth before Shelby Miller recorded his first save with a 1-2-3 ninth. Geraldo Perdomo and Tim Tawa each homered for the Diamondbacks, who also received RBIs from Alek Thomas and Eugenio Suárez. Mets starter Kodai Senga (3-2) gave up one run over four innings.
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