Forgive the mixed meats metaphor, but the beef Cody Bellinger has started with his chicken wings comments is heating up. The Yankees slugger (and former Dodger) needs to heed the timeless words of his former fellow Los Angeleno Ice-T and remember,

Cody Bellinger returned to the New York Yankees' lineup on Wednesday in Detroit, but he's done eating wings after a bout of food poisoning.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone revealed before Tuesday's game that Bellinger was out with food poisoning, with the team suspecting a bad batch of chicken wings to be the culprit. The outfielder provided more detail on Wednesday, revealing the wings were traditional bone-in wings with ranch dressing ordered from room service, per the New York Post:

Bellinger told reporters that he's feeling much better on Wednesday, but was in rough shape after ordering wings from the team hotel's room service. He had ordered the wings — b

The Yankees scratched Bellinger from the lineup Tuesday due to a suspected case of food poisoning, but he showed improvement throughout the day, prompting manager Aaron Boone to say after the team's 5-0 loss that Bellinger was available off the bench.

He was just trying to enjoy watching the national championship game Monday night in his hotel room when he ordered some room-service chicken wings.