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Mark Bellhorn

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In fourteen post-season games, Bellhorn hit three doubles and three home runs with eight runs scored and eight RBI. He hit for a .191 batting average (9-for-44). His on-base percentage was .397,
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to give the Red Sox a 4–2 victory over the Yankees in Game 6. He also homered in Game 7 of the ALCS, which the Red Sox went on to win, sending the ball high and clanging it off the right-field
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For the first seven postseason games of his career as a member of the Boston Red Sox, Bellhorn had two hits in 25 at-bats (.080); however, his resurgence started when he broke up
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He spent the rest of the 2005 season with the Yankees, appearing in nine games. For his short tenure with the team, he was named to the Yankees All-Forgotten team in 2014.
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In 2005, Bellhorn struggled, registering a lower batting average and dramatically increasing his strikeouts. The Red Sox eventually released him. Bellhorn signed with the
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suffered early-season injuries. He proceeded to have the best batting average of his career, hitting .264 with 17 home runs and 82 RBI. Despite leading the league in
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minor league system in 1998 and 1999. Bellhorn married Lindsey Bopp, in May 2013. Their first child was born in June 2014. Their second child was born 2 years later.
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to help the Sox pull away to a 4–1 lead in an eventual 6–2 victory. The Red Sox went on to win the World Series in a four-game sweep of the Cardinals.
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11–9. In doing so, Bellhorn became the first second baseman ever to homer in three consecutive postseason games. In Game 2, he hit a two-run
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history to hit a home run from both sides of the plate in the same inning, doing so in the Cubs' ten–run 4th inning at
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Bellhorn was drafted out of high school in the 37th round of the 1992 Free Agent Draft by the
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On August 12, 2007, the Reds designated Bellhorn for assignment to make room for
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After playing college ball at Auburn, Bellhorn broke into the majors with the
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as a utility infielder; however, he became the regular second baseman after
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versus the New York Yankees. Bellhorn then hit a three-run homer off
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in 1997, drafted in the second round. That year he managed a .228
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camp. He was then optioned to their Triple-A affiliate, the
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September 30, 2007, for the Cincinnati Reds
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On August 29, 2002, Bellhorn became the first player in
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with an invitation as a non-roster player to the Reds'
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Mark Bellhorn has one brother, Todd, who played in the
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June 10, 1997, for the Oakland Athletics
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In 2007, Bellhorn signed a minor-league deal with the
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Index

Bellhorn

Second baseman
Third baseman
Boston, Massachusetts
Batting average
Home runs
Runs batted in
Oakland Athletics
1997
1998
2000
2001
Chicago Cubs
2002
2003
Colorado Rockies
2003
Boston Red Sox
2004
2005
New York Yankees
2005
San Diego Padres
2006
Cincinnati Reds
2007
World Series
2004
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