Cody Bellinger tripled on the first pitch of his final at-bat Saturday night to hit for the cycle in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 7-1 romp of the Miami Marlins. Bellinger’s cycle was the the Dodgers’ first since Orlando Hudson in 2009.
Seven of the franchise’s 10 cycles came in Brooklyn, though Bellinger became the organization’s first rookie to accomplish the feat. At 22 years and two days old, Bellinger became the youngest National League player to hit for the cycle since Cesar Cedeno in 1972, and the seventh-youngest all-time.
The bid for history began innocently enough, as he singled with two outs in the first inning.