juggling grab<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\u201cI should have caught it the first time,\u201d Bellinger said.<\/p>\n
Edwards drove a cutter from Ryan Yarbrough 352 feet to left field leading off the ninth.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I squeezed the glove too early,\u201d Bellinger said. \u201cI definitely got lucky. Threw my glove out there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Cody Bellinger is quite the acrobat. A Gold Glove-winning outfielder, Bellinger made a juggling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,1365,4,1690,62,2548,2547,9501,9496,22871,22858,22859,4581,6878,142,84404],"class_list":{"0":"post-661965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cody-bellinger","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","16":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","17":"tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","18":"tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","19":"tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","20":"tag-ryan-yarbrough","21":"tag-xavier-edwards","22":"tag-yankees","23":"tag-yankees-cody-bellinger-catch"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116343983677216217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}