NEW YORK (AP) — Cody Bellinger is quite the acrobat.
A Gold Glove-winning outfielder, Bellinger made a juggling grab of a ball that bounded off his right wrist to rob the Miami Marlins' Xavier Edwards for the first out of the ninth inning as the New York Yankees won their home opener 8-2 on Friday.
“I should have caught it the first time,” Bellinger said.
Edwards drove a cutter from Ryan Yarbrough 352 feet to left field leading off the ninth.
Bellinger, a Gold Glove winner for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2019, sprinted 62 feet and caught up to the ball at the edge of the warning track. A left-handed thrower, Bellinger leaped and felt the ball pop up off the heel of his glove on his right hand.
He swiped his right arm downward in a 180-degree arc and snagged the ball blind at about knee level.
“I think I squeezed the glove too early,” Bellinger said. “I definitely got lucky. Threw my glove out there.”
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New York Yankees' Cody Bellinger (35) gestures after hitting a double during the fifth inning of a home-opener baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Friday, April 3, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Fans celebrate New York Yankees left fielder Cody Bellinger (35) after catching a fly ball by Miami Marlins' Xavier Edwards (9) during the ninth inning of a home-opener baseball game, Friday, April 3, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
New York Yankees left fielder Cody Bellinger (35) catches a fly ball by Miami Marlins' Xavier Edwards (9) during the ninth inning of a home-opener baseball game, Friday, April 3, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
NEW YORK (AP) — A second suspect in the stray-bullet killing of a 7-month-old baby on a Brooklyn street was arrested Friday, police said, two days after a shooting the police commissioner called “a tragedy that truly shocks the conscience.”
Matthew Rodriguez, 18, was apprehended in Pennsylvania by New York Police Department detectives working with U.S. Marshals, the NYPD said.
The suspected shooter, 21-year-old Amuri Greene, was arrested shortly after the drive-by gunfire that killed Kaori Patterson-Moore. Greene pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges at an arraignment Friday night.
Kaori was in her stroller when a two men sped down a street on a moped Wednesday afternoon. Greene, riding on the back of the vehicle, fired into a group of people on a street corner, according to a court complaint.
Kaori's mother, Lianna Charles-Moore, told the New York Post that after hearing what she initially believed were fireworks, she was comforting her startled 2-year-old son — who had been grazed by a bullet — when she looked to her left and saw her baby daughter bleeding. The infant had been shot in the head.
“My daughter was innocent. She didn’t deserve that," Charles-Moore told the newspaper. She said her daughter was just about starting to crawl and had recently begun saying “Mama.”
Greene told police he was aiming for another person in the crowd, according to the court complaint.
Police said the moped sped and crashed into a car two blocks away, hurling both men off the vehicle. Greene was injured and soon was hospitalized in police custody, but the moped driver fled.
Authorities haven't yet released court papers that detail Rodriguez's alleged role. But they haven't indicated they were looking for anyone other than the gunman — alleged to have been Greene — and the moped driver.
Greene was being held without bail after his arraignment. A voice message seeking comment was left with his attorney.
Police didn't immediately have information on how the men are connected or where Rodriguez lives; no working telephone number for him could immediately be found. Police charges against him were pending.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch expressed heartbreak and outrage over Kaori's death.
“This is a terrible day in our city, a tragedy that truly shocks the conscience,” Tisch said at a news briefing Wednesday.
This image taken from video provided by the New York Police Department shows New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, flanked by Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, left, and Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, speaking during a news conference, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in New York. (NYPD via AP)
