Bellinger joins dubious club with golden sombrero in Game 3

Cody Bellinger's shaky October continued Friday night at Minute Maid Park.

In four trips to the plate against the Houston Astros in Game 3, Bellinger managed four strikeouts - earning the proverbial golden sombrero - to become only the 17th player in MLB history to strike out four times in a World Series game.

Bellinger, now 0-for-11 through the first three games of the best-of-seven showdown, is the first Dodgers player ever to don the sombrero in the Fall Classic, too.

Squaring off against right-hander Lance McCullers in the top of the second, Bellinger went down on three pitches - all of them curveballs. His next time up, in the fourth, Bellinger went down on four pitches, getting just one fastball from McCullers. Two innings later, McCullers sat him down on three curveballs again, then Bellinger whiffed against Brad Peacock in the eighth, as well, in his final at-bat of his club's 5-3 loss.

The only player younger than Bellinger (22 years, 106 days) ever to whiff four times in a World Series game is Mickey Mantle, who, in 1953, managed a quartet of strikeouts in Game 3 of the World Series against, as it happens, the Brooklyn Dodgers.