I will not eat wings for five years,” Bellinger told reporters on Wednesday, a day after he was scratched from the lineup with a suspected case of food poisoning. Bellinger said he had chicken wings at the team’s hotel in the Motor City while watching the NCAA men’s basketball championship game on Monday night and had an adverse reaction.

New York Yankees outfielder Cody Bellinger has sworn off chicken wings for five years following his recent bout with food poisoning. Bellinger announced his decision Wednesday, two days after he consumed some room-service chicken wings at the Yankees' team hotel in Detroit while he watched the NCAA Tournament national championship game.

New York Yankees outfielder Cody Bellinger is taking a hardline stance against wings. The two-time All-Star joked on Wednesday that he "will not eat wings for five years" due to a recent bout of food poisoning.

The New York Yankees signed Max Fried this offseason, but an injury to Gerrit Cole could force them to look for pitchers at the trade deadline.

The New York Yankees currently are 7-5 on the season and are in second place in the American League East behind the Toronto Blue Jays. New York is just a 1/2 game out of the top spot in the division,

Max Fried threw seven scoreless innings to outduel high school teammate Jack Flaherty, Ben Rice hit a two-run homer in the seventh and AL MVP Aaron Judge drove in two more runs to help the New York Ya

And the Yankees needed every bit of it. Because Wednesday afternoon’s opposing pitcher, Jack Flaherty, a high school teammate of Fried’s at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, was just as good. But Fried outlasted Flaherty,