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It's really hard to be the first player to do something in the history of the New York Yankees.
This is the franchise of Ruth and Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle and Berra, Maris and Mattingly, Jeter and Judge.
Almost everything has been done that can be done on a baseball diamond by one of the many legends to have donned the pinstripes.
But on Wednesday, as the Yankees staged the most persistent comeback in MLB history, Cody Bellinger found his way to a franchise first.
Bellinger stepped to the plate in the bottom of the 10th inning with the Yankees trailing 4-3. And he delivered an RBI triple to score Trent Grisham and send the game to the 11th, where the Yanks ended up winning.
According to Baseball Reference's Katie Sharp, it was the first game-tying triple in extra innings in Yankees history.
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That's an incredible feat.
Sure, triples are rare. And maybe base runners take slightly less risks to get that third base in extra innings when every set of 90 feet is at a premium.
The triple also needs to come in that spot with a runner on, which is easier to have happen in the modern extra innings where a runner begins on second base.
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But still, the Yankees have played a lot of baseball games. They've had a lot of good hitters who know how to deliver in clutch moments.
And yet it's Bellinger who proved you can still do something for the first time in pinstripes. As he slid into third on Wednesday, Bellinger slid into history.
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