I don’t think Brandon Belt asked for a rain delay for his birthday, but he’s getting one. So let’s take some time to wish our favorite first baseman/left fielder a very happy 31st birthday by remembering some of our favorite moments with him.
Last May, Belt was tearing it up and was named the NL Player of the Week. It’s not hard to see why:
It was only the second month of the season but Belt was already halfway to his season high for home runs. As I wrote at the time, during that series against Cincinnati:
He not only hit one in every game of this series, but he hit one in the last two games he played against the Reds in May of 2017.