Cody Bellinger had run into bad luck of late. The Yankees center fielder missed two games at the beginning of the month when his lower back tightened up — an issue he’s dealt with from time to time. He sat out again on Tuesday when a batch of room-service chicken wings in Detroit left him with f ood poisoning. Bellinger entered Saturday with three hits in his last 31 at-bats. “A little bit disjointed here to start, with the back and the food poisoning, [but] Cody’s gonna bang,” manager Aaron Boone said before Saturday’s game against the San Francisco Giants. “He’ll get it rolling.” It didn’t take long for Bellinger to prove his manager right. Bellinger delivered a pair of run-scoring hits in Saturday’s 8-4 victory in the Bronx, helping to back Yankees rookie starter Will Warren as he picked up his first MLB win. “I was just excited to contribute to the W,” said Bellinger, whom the Yankees acquired in an offseason trade with the Chicago Cubs. “[My start to the season has] been a little unfortunate, but there’s a lot of baseball left and I’m excited to be part of this team. This team’s very impressive.” On a rainy afternoon with a first-pitch temperature of 41 degrees, Bellinger started the scoring with a first-inning RBI triple against flame-throwing Giants starter Jordan Hicks. Bellinger then scored on a Paul Goldschmidt sacrifice fly, putting the Yankees up, 2-0. With the score tied, 2-2, in the bottom of the fifth, Bellinger lined a go-ahead RBI single against Hicks to kick off a five-run inning for the Yankees. Bellinger finished 2-for-5 with two RBI and two runs for his second multi-hit and second multi-RBI game with the Yankees (8-6). He had three hits and four RBI on March 29, when he was part of the Yankees’ historic nine-homer barrage against the Milwaukee Brewers. “I feel like he’s been close to that with a number of at-bats lately,” Boone said after Saturday’s win. “It’s 15 degrees out for the last week. We can bang. These guys can bang. It’s the big leagues. You’re gonna score two [runs] one day. You’re gonna score zero occasionally. I just felt like it was more good at-bats from a lot of people.” Those good at-bats came in support of Warren, who held the Giants (10-4) to two runs on two hits in five innings. Behind a mid-90s fastball and a well-placed sweeper he used to freeze hitters, Warren recorded six strikeouts and elicited 14 swings and misses. His lone blemish came in the second inning, when Wilmer Flores struck a two-run home run. Will Warren held the Giants to two runs in five innings on Saturday. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images) In the top of the fifth, after Warren walked No. 9 hitter Tyler Fitzgerald with two outs, Boone stuck with the rookie right-hander. Warren rewarded his manager’s trust by striking out Mike Yastrzemski for the third time in as many at-bats. Saturday marked the eighth career start for Warren, the Yankees’ No. 2 pitching prospect, who made the season-opening rotation amid a rash of injuries. Warren went 0-3 with a 10.32 ERA last season but is now 1-0 with a 5.14 ERA through three starts this year. “I’ve been waiting a while to get that one off the table,” Warren, 25, said of his first career win. “I’ve learned a lot. I’ve been through a lot of tough outings, but I think that’s what makes this one even sweeter.” Warren became eligible for Saturday’s win thanks to the Yankees’ fifth-inning rally, which, after Bellinger’s tie-breaking single, also included an RBI double from Goldschmidt; a sacrifice fly by Anthony Volpe; and a two-run single from Jasson Domínguez. That hit snapped an 0-for-15 slide for Domínguez, who added a seventh-inning infield single and finished 2-for-4. Ben Rice hit a solo home run — his fourth homer of the season — in the bottom of the sixth. Aaron Judge went 2-for-4 with a walk and two runs. He is now 14-for-28 in eight career games against the Giants, whom he grew up rooting for as a kid in Linden, Calif. Devin Williams, who entered Saturday with a 12.00 ERA through four appearances, worked around a leadoff walk and an ensuing double to pitch a scoreless ninth in a non-save situation. The new Yankees closer recorded a pair of strikeouts before Heliot Ramos grounded out to end the game. “I maintain we’re gonna look up eventually and he’s gonna be rolling, and he’s gonna be one of the game’s great closers. We’re gonna see that this year,” Boone said. “Hopefully this is something that can kind of domino into now just getting him more and more settled.” Saturday’s win evened the three-game series after the Yankees suffered a rain-shortened 9-1 loss on Friday night. They will go for the series win on Sunday afternoon, when Carlos Rodón (1-2, 5.19 ERA) is set to match up against Giants ace Logan Webb (1-0, 1.89 ERA). ...read more read less