The Latest Breaking News from Cody Bellinger

After three disappointing seasons, Cody Bellinger is off to a hot start. If he’s available on the waiver wire, grab him.

Two glaring questions on the minds of Chicago baseball fans three weeks into the 2023 season:

David Peralta’s walk-off single decided the game.

LOS ANGELES — An offense that mustered only two hits for eight innings and trailed by a run for most of the game came to life in the bottom of the ninth inning Saturday night, David Peralta delivering a clutch two-out, two-run, pinch-hit single to right field to lift the…

LOS ANGELES — The agent for Cody Bellinger called Major League Baseball deputy commissioner Dan Halem to complain about the pitch-clock violation that Bellinger received when the Chicago Cubs center fielder stepped out of the batter's box in anticipation of a lengthy ovation before his first at-bat as a visitor…

Dodgers fans gave Bellinger such a warm reception that he was issued an automatic strike in his first at-bat after taking in the moment.

The violation has been called the worst of the season after the MLB rule changes.

Has enforcement of the MLB’s new rules gone too far?

LOS ANGELES — The nickname Noah Syndergaard had when his fastball approached 100 mph as a younger New York Mets pitcher no longer fits. The Dodgers right-hander still has the Nordic-sounding name and looks, but he is a mere shadow of the intimidator they called Thor, after the hammer-wielding god…