WASHINGTON – Years from now, some poor, intrepid baseball fan will be trying to piece together Juan Soto’s rookie season and will be very, very confused.

On Monday afternoon, the Nationals and Yankees resumed their May 15 game that was suspended by rain, the score tied 3-3. Soto didn’t make his big league debut until May 20, five days after the suspended game. So when he entered Monday’s game, he did so as a pinch-hitter, and immediately did this.

https://twitter.com/Nationals/status/1008825142733103105

As those who understand the geography of Nationals Park are well aware, that ball was one set of bleacher bum’s hands away from bouncing up against the wall that separates Shake Shack and Blue Smoke up along the scoreboard walk. The Home Run Tracker put it at 433 feet, which seems woefully underestimated. But the round-tripper did more than just drop jaws and win the game for the Nats — it broke baseball’s record-keeping system.

https://twitter.com/MLBHR/status/1008820406323744776

It was actually Soto’s sixth home run of the year, but with the box score listed as May 15, the stat-keeping software logged it as his first. The machines … they do not understand.

It turns out, Soto joined some pretty elite company with his feat.

https://twitter.com/JamalCollier/status/1008697703688212485

Soto’s appearance will likely appear in the record books as Bonds’ did, as having happened on the originally scheduled date of the game. But when it comes to homering, he stands alone.

https://twitter.com/theaceofspaeder/status/1008834111325253639

Oh, by the way, the 19-year-old slugger’s emerging nickname? Childish Bambino, a mashup play on Donald Glover’s rap alias and, of course, Babe Ruth. So who else did he break the record books against — literally — than the Yankees.