Juan Soto made New York Yankees fans hold their breath on Wednesday night before he took their breath away.

Soto hit a two-run home run in the sixth inning to lift the New York Yankees to a 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, sending Yankees fans wild.

What left them gasping was that, in a dramatic injury scare, Soto fouled a ball with his right foot and then hobbled in pain down the first-base line before falling to his knees.

But the Yankees slugger went back into the batter’s box moments later and drilled a 79-mile-hour knucklecurve into the right-field seats, hopping the ball on one leg as he watched it fly and then jogging around the bases.

After the game, Soto admitted that he was in a lot of pain before hitting the long ball.

“It was a lot of pain,” Soto said. “At the end of the day, I tried to focus on the shot. When you hit yourself like that, sometimes you lose your swing a little bit. So I tried to just focus, take my time, go in and make good contact.”

How long did it take for Soto to realize that he was okay and could keep hitting?

“A couple of minutes,” Soto said. “When I hit the ground, I knew nothing was broken, but it really hurt and I tried to put weight on my foot, but I just fell down.”

Soto’s teammate Jazz Chisholm Jr., who delivered a walk-off hit in the 11th inning, told reporters that he and his teammates knew the bat was about to “do something special” even before his sixth-inning home run.

“You could tell from the way he looked around that he was about to do something special,” Chisholm said.