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Bellinger

Bellinger slapped Shawn Armstrong pitch to the left side and through a drawn-in infield to plate two in the 10th. He’s up to 43 RBI on the season, which is tied for 14th in the majors. Of the 25 players with at least 40 RBI, only Bellinger (nine) and Alec Burleson (eight) are still in single digits in homers.

Bellinger’s homer was a go-ahead solo shot in the eighth off Justin Slaten. He re-signed with the Yankees on a five-year, $162.5 million deal this past offseason, and he’s posting his best quality of contact since 2020. Bellinger has done it more with on-base abilities than power output, but his 138 wRC+ is tied with his rookie year for the second-best mark of his career.

Grisham will open the contest on the bench with veteran lefty Patrick Corbin toeing the rubber for Toronto in this one. Cody Bellinger is in center field with Max Schuemann in left field.

Paul Goldschmidt and Bellinger both had Joc Pederson-aided triples in the first today. Bellinger’s was a liner in front of Pederson that a faster right fielder probably would have made a diving play on. Pederson tried to and had the ball bounce over him. It was Bellinger’s AL-leading third triple of the year. His OPS is all of the way up .924 with him having opened May 14-for-26 with 10 extra-base hits in seven games.

Bellinger’s first homer was a Yankee Stadium special that traveled just 363 feet, per Statcast, and would’ve been an out in every other stadium. His second against lefty reliever Keegan Akin in the fifth inning was a bit more definitive and gave New York a commanding 6-1 lead at the time. It was his second multi-homer performance of the season. He also plated an additional runs with a pair of additional hits, and added his fourth stolen base of the season, just for good measure.

Bellinger was called upon to pinch hit with the bases loaded and one out in the seventh inning, with the Yankees trailing 2-1. He smacked a 2-1 fastball from Greg Weissert into left field for a go-ahead two-run single, giving the Bombers a lead they wouldn’t relinquish. On the season, the 30-year-old slugger is now hitting .271/.373/.435 with three homers, 13 RBI and three stolen bases through his first 102 plate appearances.

Bellinger will take a seat with left-hander Payton Tolle toeing the slab for the Red Sox. Trent Grisham will start in center field and bat leadoff for the Bombers while Randal Grichuk draws a start in left and will bat fifth.

Bellinger took Royals lefty starter Noah Cameron deep for a two-run shot in the third inning before taking reliever Mitch Spence deep in garbage time a couple frames later to cap off his first multi-homer performance of the year. The 30-year-old reached base safely in four of his five plate appearances during the one-sided slugfest. It was his first time leaving the yard since April 4. He’s hitting .274/.368/.452 with three homers, 11 RBI and three steals in 20 games this season.

Reid Detmers doesn’t have extreme splits,, but the Yankees are giving several left-handed hitters the night off against Detmers on Tuesday. Chisholm, Cody Bellinger and Ben Rice will all sit and Paul Goldschmidt, Randal Grichuk and Amed Rosario will get a chance to play.

Bellinger launched a 394-foot home run at 105.5 mph off the bat against Max Meyer for his first home run of the season. The RBIs are also his first RBIs of the season, so it’s been a slow start to the season for the 30-year-old, but today was a good step in the right direction.