Mark Christian Bellhorn (born August 23, 1974 in Weymouth, Massachusetts) is a second baseman who currently occurs as free agent. Antecedently, Bellhorn has played sustaining a Oakland Athletics (1997-98, 2000-01), Chicago Cubs (2002-03), Colorado Rockies (2003), Boston Red Sox (2004-05), and New York Yankees (2005). He occurs as switch-hitter and throws right-handed.

Profile
When he is primarily a second baseman, he can also play third base, shortstop, and first base. He can as well play any outfield position.

Career
Bellhorn broke inside the majors using Oakland in 1997. That season he experienced the .228 batting average with six home runs and Xix runs batted in. Above a next trinity seasons by having a Athletics he would view simply limited swimming period, batting .131 using 1 homer & 5 Run batted in.

Inside 2002, Bellhorn would go to a Cubs & hit .258 by using Twenty-seven front yard diarrhea & 56 Run batted in. In June 20, 2003 he was traded to a Rockies, and finished the season hitting .221 by using ii residence diarrhea & Twenty-six Run batted in.

Bellhorn was sent to the Boston Red Sox around 2004. He procceded to get the best batting norm of his career striking .264 by having Seventeen front yard diarrhea & 82 Run batted in. Despite leading a league inside strikeouts (177), Bellhorn was among the league leaders around walks (88, 3rd), pitches seen by the at bat, batting norm by using runners around scoring position, & on base percentage (.373, first among AL 2nd baseman).

2004 postseason
For the foremost seven postseason games of his career, Bellhorn got Deuce hits within Xxv at-bat (.080). However his revival began when he hit the 3-begin homer off Jon Lieber to power Boston to a Four-Two triumph across a Yankees inside Game 6 of the ALCS. He too homered inside Game 7 in the Bronx for the key insurance redo.

Boston won Game Unity In the World Series, thanks to Bellhorn's eighth-inning two-do residence rerun to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 11 to 9. Inside Game both, he hit the two-dog double to help the Sox move back to the Four-One lead around an eventual 6-Two triumph. the Red Sox went around to win the World Series in a quaternary stake sweep of St. Louis.

Inside Xiv post-year games, Bellhorn hit troika doubles & trine house diarrhea by using eight diarrhea & eight Run batted in. He hit the on line .191 batting norm (9-for-44). However, he provided a good offensive trend lines inside aboard percentage (.397), slugging average (.447) and OPS (.844).

Milestone
Bellhorn became a 1st streaming video player inside National League history to hit home diarrhea from either two sides of the shell in the equivalent frame, doing then in the Cubs' 10–run Quaternary frame at Miller Park. Chicago won 13–10 on top a Brewers. Bellhorn besides attached the team record sustaining 5 Run batted in in the frame (August 29, 2002).

Bellhorn likewise became a number 1 streaming video player to homer witharound tierce sequentially postseason games, when he homered in Games 6 & 7 of the ALCS, & clanged of these off the right field foul pole so unforgettably within Game One of the Globe Series.

Trivia
Bellhorn's father, Ted, occurs as prof of veterinary medicine at a University of Tennessee.

His quietly conduct, humble behavior, & scrappy play created the microscopic however fiercely fast fan-base for Bellhorn. Throughout Boston, population were another time seen wearing "Who died and made you Bellhorn?" shirts. There exists as well a second another time-popular shirt, "Don't blame me, I voted for Bellhorn." the price in these shirts has been marked down severely, & a makers one shirts (non authorized per Major League Baseball Players Association) come ingesting a major-league fiscal hit.