Bill Plaschke: Cody Bellinger’s Dodgers homecoming a harsh reminder of a preventable split
LOS ANGELES — The cap was backward, the smile was wide, the laughter was easy. But beneath Cody Bellinger’s good humor Friday were his haunting hands. Throughout a breezy pregame dugout interview with reporters, he continually squeezed his palms together, gripping his thumbs, clasping his fingers, clenching so hard his knuckles briefly turned white. Those hands that created so many wondrous ...
LOS ANGELES — The cap was backward, the smile was wide, the laughter was easy.
But beneath Cody Bellinger’s good humor Friday were his haunting hands.
Throughout a breezy pregame dugout interview with reporters, he continually squeezed his palms together, gripping his thumbs, clasping his fingers, clenching so hard his knuckles briefly turned white.
Those hands that created so many wondrous Dodger memories with so many beautiful swings have returned as hands of pain, unable to hide the regret at being forced from a place where he created so much joy.
I asked the new Chicago Cubs center fielder if he thought he would be a Dodger forever.
“I think there was
