{"id":322622,"date":"2026-08-16T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322622\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T17:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:44:07","slug":"yankees-cody-bellinger-to-begin-rehab-assignment-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322622\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Cody Bellinger to begin rehab assignment Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">TORONTO &#8212; Outfielder <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33912\/cody-bellinger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cody Bellinger<\/a> will begin a rehab assignment Tuesday and could rejoin the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nyy\/new-york-yankees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Yankees<\/a> next weekend, manager Aaron Boone said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bellinger has not played since July 26 because of a strained left hamstring. He&#8217;ll play Tuesday and Thursday, likely with Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre, Boone said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bellinger, who is batting .259 with 11 homers and 53 RBIs in 102 games this season, re-signed with the Yankees last winter for $162.5 million over five years. He was the MVP of the 2026 All-Star Game in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Three-time MVP <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33192\/aaron-judge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aaron Judge<\/a> is scheduled to throw and run in New York on Sunday, Boone said. Judge hasn&#8217;t played since May 31 because of a broken right rib. On Friday, Judge <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/49620326\/yankees-aaron-judge-plays-catch-first-rehab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">threw for the first time<\/a> since going on the injured list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Left-hander <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carlos Rod\u00f3n<\/a> (elbow) is expected to make a minor league rehab start on Tuesday, Boone said, but the team hasn&#8217;t decided where Rod\u00f3n will pitch. He&#8217;s made two minor league starts this month, one at Triple-A and one at Double-A Somerset.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO &#8212; Outfielder Cody Bellinger will begin a rehab assignment Tuesday and could rejoin the New York Yankees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[121544,115843,3080,17463,20,9,24,55,54,321,12,56],"class_list":["post-322622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-121544","tag-bellinger-cody","tag-espn","tag-judge-aaron","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}