Cody Bellinger’s 3-homer game vs. Cubs in Yankees’ 11-0 win

Before the opening of the Friday evening series against the Chicago Cubs, the Yankees manager Aaron Boone listed the many ways in which Cody Bellinger has an impact on his club before settling on a global descriptor.

“Winning player.”

It was therefore appropriate that Bellinger was the engine of the 11-0 victory of the Yankees on the Cubs in the Bronx.

Faced with the Cubs for the first time since they exchanged him towards the last off -season of the Yankees, Bellinger delivered the first match to three hommes in his career.

The three circuits were explosions of two points, giving Bellinger six products produced in a performance of 3 for 5 to support a jewel of the leaving Carlos Rodón.

The third circuit of Bellinger against right-hander Chris Flexen gave the Yankees an advance of 3-0, while his explosion of fifth round on the left-handed Caleb Thielbar made a 5-0 match.

After his shooting of the eighth round against the left-hander Jordan Wicks made a 10-0 game, Bellinger obtained a curtain call from a crowd of 46,327.

Bellinger almost finished with four circuits, but the right field player Kyle Tucker took a jump on a 353 -foot trip to the seventh that would have cleaned the wall otherwise.

However, the Red-Hot Bellinger obtained the 18th multi-homer game from his career and his first as Yankee. He extended his strike sequence at 16 games, which established a new career summit.

The Yankees acquired Bellinger, 29, cubs in December, hoping that the voltiseur / first base player would improve their defense and pick up part of the offensive production left vacant by the departure of Juan Soto for dishes.

The Cubs, meanwhile, asked for a payroll repair and had an overabundance of field players after their acquisition of Tucker.

“I do business,” said Bellinger in December during a launch zoom call. “I am very good at separating the business and baseball. I am the baseball player and there are businessmen in this game, so I just want to prepare and play the best baseball possible. ”

The Yankees took most of the remaining 52.5 million dollars on the Bellinger contract and sent the CODY POTEET Starter to the CUBS in return.

This turned out to be a fruitful investment for the Yankees, which mainly turned Bellinger in the three external spots but also used it intermittently to the first goal.

“To be able to play four positions as he does, really at a high level, is really impressive,” said Boone before Friday’s match. “The quality of the bats.

Bellinger won the recruit of the national league year in 2017 and the NL MVP in 2019 with the Los Angeles Dodgers, but he underwent an operation on the right shoulder after the 2020 season and fought offensively the next two years.

The Dodgers did not hold it out before the 2023 season, leaving Bellinger to sign an agreement over a year with the Cubs. Bellinger returned to its star form in 2023, then was signed with Chicago before the 2024 season on a $ 80 million contract over three years with opt-outs after each year.

“Cody has very, very good instincts,” said Cubs Manager Craig Counsell on Friday. “He is an intelligent and intelligent baseball player. You knew in a way that playing in front of him is that he is just good in everything, but that’s what he does for me. It’s just a good baseball player.”

When the Cubs sought to exchange it for the latest offseason, Bellinger – The son of the former yankees voltiseur / Interior field player Clay Bellinger – put the Yankees at the top of his list of wishes.

Bellinger is now hitting. 341 with eight circuits and 22 points produced in 34 games since the beginning of June.

His big match supported Rodón, who withdrew eight from four strokes and a walk in eight laundry rounds.

Boone visited the mound after Rodón authorized a simple with two withdrawals to Nico Hoerner in the eighth, putting runners in the corners, but the manager let the left-hander face one more striker, winning delighted applause of the almost capacity crowd.

During his 109th field, Rodón made Tucker align an Aaron de diving judge, who also stole Pete Crow-Armstrong from a Home Run and in Aby Swanson from a simple fourth round.

Rodón closed an offense to the Cubs which entered Friday with an average of 5.41 MLB points per game.

This performance occurred a few hours after being appointed to the star match, replacing his teammate Max Fried, who should start for Yankees on Saturday and therefore chose to launch in next week’s exhibition in Atlanta.

Friday’s victory was the fifth of the consecutive Yankees, with this sequence immediately after a losing skipping of six games.