The city of Minneapolis Brayan Bello had a 6.94 ERA in 10 day games during his first complete major league season in 2023, but he had a far superior 3.06 ERA when starting at night.
However, he was marginally better (4.09 ERA) in nine day starts in 2024 than he was in 21 night appearances (4.67). He has also been extremely excellent at night in 2025, with a 3.45 ERA in 60 innings, but he is even better in the sun, with a great 2.88 ERA in 50 day innings. This does not include his five solid innings of relief work against the Reds in a game that was stopped on July 1.
Bello continued to do the same on Wednesday in Minnesota, when he started at 12:10 p.m. local time and worked around four walks to give the Red Sox seven solid innings in a 13-1 thumping. He gave up five hits, struck out four, and gave up one run (on a homer by Matt Wallner).
When Bello throws a matinee, he no longer has trouble settling into a groove. Why? His manager says having two small children has altered him.
Two children. In a matter-of-fact manner, manager Alex Cora stated that he must now rise early. That’s just the truth.
Since Bello made his major league debut in July 2022 at the age of 23, the Bello family has undergone significant upheaval. He and his spouse, Anabely, have a son, Brayan Jr., born last August, and a daughter, Bryanna, born in July 2023.The Clubhouse, a Netflix documentary, revealed that Bello’s family was not present during the previous season.However, Bello has had the most reliable run of results in his career this year, and the family is in the United States. Due to a right shoulder ailment, he had to postpone the start of his season until April 22. He has pitched 10 times during the day and has a 7-5 record with a 3.19 ERA in 110 innings.
Bello stated through translator Carlos Villoria Ben tez, “Obviously, having kids means you have to get up early, so my body is already used to getting up early every day.” Due to the absence of my children, last year was different. I have to put in a lot of effort to prepare for day games. That seems like it happened this year.
On Wednesday, Bello arrived at Target Field at approximately 9:15 a.m. and, following some pre-start stretching, felt prepared to pitch at approximately 10:30. He warmed up at approximately 11:20 and took the mound against a weakened Twins lineup just after noon.
In the first inning, Bello gave up a walk and a single, but he was out of the inning when Kody Clemens attempted to score from first. After Trevor Story homered to give the team a 1-0 lead in the second inning, Matt Wallner clipped Bello for a solo shot. After giving up two walks in the third and getting away with it, Boston’s offense scored four runs in the fifth and two more in the sixth to take an 8-1 lead.
For the first couple of innings, I felt like my body was moving a little slowly, but after that, I settled into the rhythm, Bello said. I’m glad I was able to go seven and get some rest for our bullpen.
Bello threw 93 pitches in the first seven frames and wanted to return for an eighth inning. However, that was sufficient since Cora wanted to use lefty Chris Murphy before giving the remainder of the bullpen back-to-back days off (the team is off Thursday) and Murphy was available for a multi-inning stint.
According to Cora, Bello started off inconsistent before settling into a rhythm and making several pitches. He gave us more than enough and had terrific fastball command.
There won’t be much sleep from now on, and we’ll save bullets if we can.
