CHICAGO (AP) — New York Yankees outfielder Cody Bellinger will be sidelined for four to six weeks with a Grade 2 left hamstring strain.
Bellinger was placed on the 10-day injured list on Sunday, a day after he got hurt running the bases during a 3-1 win at Philadelphia. He had more tests on Monday in New York that revealed the extent of the injury.
“So the good thing is he’s obviously able to move around right now,” manager Aaron Boone said before the opener of a four-game series at the Chicago White Sox. “So we’ll continue to do that and just allow this thing to heal and get him right.”
The loss of Bellinger is another major injury for a New York team already playing without reigning AL MVP Aaron Judge, who has been out since May 31 because of a fractured rib. Designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton has been sidelined since April 24 because of a strained right calf.
The Yankees trailed AL East-leading Tampa Bay by three games going into Monday's action.
“We’ve had some tough injuries to some really important people,” Boone said. “But again, that is part of it. As I say, the season waits for no one.”
Max Schuemann got the start in left field for the series opener against the White Sox. Spencer Jones, who was brought up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre when Bellinger was placed on the IL, was in center, and Jasson Domínguez was in right.
The MLB trade deadline is next week, but Boone downplayed the effect of Bellinger's injury on the strategy for general manager Brian Cashman and the team's front office.
“I get the sense that they have been working on this in different ways, shape and form for the last several weeks, getting ready for trade deadline stuff,” Boone said. “I expect them to try and do all they can to improve our team, but again, you never know how that’s going to shake out.”
Bellinger, 31, felt tightness in his hamstring while rounding first on a double in the eighth inning on Saturday night. He is batting .259 with 11 homers and 53 RBIs in 102 games this season.
Bellinger re-signed with the Yankees last winter for $162.5 million over five years. He was the MVP of the All-Star Game on July 14 in Philadelphia.
Judge and Stanton are with the team in Chicago, and Boone said Stanton is continuing with his running progression.
“The strength stuff, explosive stuff he’s doing in the weight room has been very good,” Boone said. “So we just got to get him up to a level obviously on the running side of things to be able to go out there.”
Left-hander Carlos Rodón and right-hander Clarke Schmidt are both expected to throw again this week, Boone said. Rodón is coming back from elbow inflammation, and Schmidt had Tommy John surgery a year ago.
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New York Yankees' Austin Wells, right, comes in to score on the single by Cody Bellinger as Philadelphia Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto, left, looks on during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Saturday, July 25, 2026, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
A man fatally shot his wife and their six children, then himself, before they all were found in their burning Michigan home last week, investigators said Monday.
Kristopher and Amanda Karolkiewicz and their six children, aged 5 to 15, died Friday in their home in Grand Haven Township, on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. Authorities were summoned for a fire and then discovered the bodies.
The Ottawa County Sheriff's Office said in a release Monday that autopsies determined all the family members died of gunshot wounds, and that Kristopher Karolkiewicz took his own life. The sheriff's office said the fire appears to have been set intentionally in multiple parts of the home after the killings, but officials still are investigating the origin point.
“This is an unspeakable tragedy that we may never completely understand," Sheriff Eric DeBoer said in a statement read aloud at a news conference by one of his deputies, Capt. Jacob Sparks.
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Amanda Karolkiewicz, 39, an elementary school substitute teacher who went by Mandy, “was a kind and devoted soul who loved her family and her students,” her mother and stepfather, Becky and Steve Lawwill, said in a statement.
“We treasured every moment we had with her and her six children, and words cannot adequately address our devastation," they wrote, adding that they “pray for God’s peace and comfort as we grieve their deaths and honor their lives."
A message seeking comment was sent Monday to Kris Karolkiewicz's family.
The 47-year-old man was a vice president of sales and marketing for the American Heart Association from September 2023 to earlier this month, when his employment ended, the organization said in a statement. The association did not release further details, saying it does not comment on personnel matters. While with the AHA, he worked remotely for a division responsible for CPR and first aid training and products, it said.
Mandy Karolkiewicz went “above and beyond for students, especially when they’re having a hard day, responding with empathy, patience, and care,” as the local school district put it in a Facebook post in January. A message seeking comment was sent Monday to the Grand Haven Area Public Schools system.
The couple met at work at a beverage company in 2008 and began dating that summer, according to a parenting-oriented blog that Mandy Karolkiewicz kept over a decade ago. The two married in August 2009.
Their first child was born on April 25, 2011, which she hailed as “the best day of my life (so far).” Two more sons followed over the next four years, as she shifted from a banking job to a part-time position at a local insurance agency and later stopped working outside the home. The couple later adopted two daughters and had another biological son.
The blog frequently expressed her Christian faith, her joy in the family and her love and appreciation for her husband and his parenting.
Kris Karolkiewicz, too, hailed their life together: “I’m a very lucky guy,” he wrote in a 2019 Facebook post ahead of their 10th anniversary.
Although her blog ended in 2016, Mandy Karolkiewicz continued sharing updates on her family and activities in TikTok videos, including clips of a trip to China earlier this month with two of her children.
Officials got calls about a smoky smell in the area around the Karolkiewicz home Friday morning, checked it out but found nothing. After getting more calls about three hours later, they returned, saw smoke coming from the home and found the bodies, at least some of them in bedrooms, Sparks said. Also found were the family’s dogs and at least one cat, which had perished in the blaze.
It's unclear how much earlier the shootings had happened.
Mandy Karolkiewicz's family endured another loss in 2020, when her adult stepbrother died from a fentanyl overdose. Friends of her parents were launching a GoFundMe campaign Monday to help with expenses and establish a scholarship in the Karolkiewicz children's memory.
Grand Haven township is a community of about 18,000 people, about a half-hour drive west of Grand Rapids.
Another shooting wounded five people in Ottawa County early Sunday, when gunfire broke out at a party at the Bass River Recreation Area. One person was critically injured. A suspect has been arrested, the sheriff's office said.
Peltz reported from New York and Collins from Hartford, Conn.
Law enforcement officials investigate the scene of a fatal house fire on Friday, July 24, 2026, in Grand Haven Township, Mich. (Joel Bissell/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP)
Community members gather during a student-organized vigil at Duncan Woods in Grand Haven, Mich. on Sunday, July 26, 2026, to grieve and honor eight members of a local family who died in a tragedy that has stunned the lakeshore community. (Isaac Ritchey /The Grand Rapids Press via AP)
Community members gather during a student-organized vigil at Duncan Woods in Grand Haven, Mich. on Sunday, July 26, 2026, to grieve and honor eight members of a local family who died in a tragedy that has stunned the lakeshore community. (Isaac Ritchey/The Grand Rapids Press via AP)
Law enforcement officials gather to investigate a fatal house fire on Friday, July 24, 2026, in Grand Haven Township, Mich. Ottawa County Sheriff's Office said six children and two adults were found dead in a "suspicious" house fire. (Joel Bissell/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP)
