Fernando Tatis Jr. and Juan Soto orchestrate superb San Diego display as Padres pummel Yankees 5-1

Fernando Tatis Jr. spent a night in the Bronx playing with Yankees fans as the San Diego Padres outscored the New York Yankees 5-1 in Game 1 of the series.

Tatis was taunted by the Yankees crowd with chants of “steroids” referring to his 80-game suspension for using performance-enhancing drugs.

The Dominican answered with a 439-foot homer into left field to extend the Pads’ lead to 4-0 in the top of the sixth inning.

Tatis held the bat watching the ball, then nonchalantly returned it to the Padres’ bench.

After the home run, Tatis gave it back to the Bronx faithful, motioning that they were quiet and then asked why.

He and superstar slugger Juan Soto (R) led San Diego to a 5-1 win amid a hostile New York crowd

Tatis was heckled throughout his PED ban, but got the last laugh in the Bronx, NY.

The banter didn’t stop there with the San Diego slugger acting as bandleader, wiggling his fingers back and forth amid chants of ‘steroids’.

‘It’s strong. It’s New York. You’re going to hear it all,’ Tatis said after the game. “You’re just giving the fans a good time. You just have to learn to embrace it.

All in all, it was a great evening with the traveling Padres. Juan Soto threw a 432-foot bomb into the second deck at Yankee Stadium.

Soto gave the Padres the lead in the fifth inning against Randy Vásquez (0-1), a 24-year-old right-hander who is making his league debut.

After Vásquez grazed Jake Cronenworth’s thigh with a pitch, Soto fouled a 1-0 cutter on his left knee and activated a full cutter for his 10th home run.

The run to right field started at 114 mph, the Padres’ hardest-hit home run this season.