Cody Bellinger possesses that rarest of baseball gifts.
“He has the ability,” Dodgers first base coach George Lombard said, “to make everything look easy.”
Lombard said that the Dodgers’ staff didn’t know Bellinger all that well at the start of spring training. His arm proved better than they expected. He ran better than they expected. And his power . . . it’s doubtful that even Bellinger’s father, former major-league infielder/outfielder Clay Bellinger – expected this.
Cody, 21, played in just his 32nd career game on Monday, and became the fastest rookie in Dodgers history to reach 11 home runs.