The hottest player in Major League Baseball keeps getting hotter...
MLB.com reports:
The Giants ruined another amazing April night for Cody Bellinger on Monday when Evan Longoria’s three-run double in the bottom of the seventh inning provided a 3-2 comeback win over the Dodgers at Oracle Park.
Bellinger threw a runner out at third base from right field and singled home the first run on an 0-2 pitch off a left-hander for another MLB record. Bellinger has 37 RBIs, the most before May 1 in MLB history. He had been tied with Mark McGwire and Juan Gonzalez, who both reached the mark in 1998.
Bellinger went 2-for-3 with a walk and threw out Brandon Crawford in the second inning trying to go from first to third on Kevin Pillar’s single with no outs, with Bellinger’s fastball tracked by Statcast at 91.7 mph. The two singles increased Bellinger’s MLB record for total bases in March/April to 96, 11 more than Chase Utley’s previous record. Bellinger leads the league in everything, just about.
The Dodgers scored both runs in the sixth inning, which began with a single off Tony Watson from Joc Pederson, who entered the game batting .083 against left-handers. Justin Turner singled, Bellinger singled in one run and Max Muncy doubled in the other.
The 23-year-old outfielder is on an absolute tear in the season's first month. He entered Monday night leading the MLB in all three slash figures, hitting .427/.500/.913. Bellinger now has 14 homers, 37 RBIs, 36 hits and 30 runs this season, all league-bests.
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