Cody Bellinger's game-saving catch caps Yankees reliever's Dellin Betances impression

When New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone inserts Cody Bellinger for defense, from this point forward, you let him. You don't ask questions.

Wednesday night's thrilling 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals secured a much-needed (to say the least) sweep for the Yankees, and the final two innings were so exciting that Aaron Judge's Ruthian feats were almost an afterthought.

Judge lined a key 114 MPH double in the third inning, then broke the tie in the seventh with a casual opposite field blast against ex-Red Sox reliever John Schreiber. He's now hitting .409, and he doesn't even have the headline-stealing lead-in he played with last year. What's that guy up to these days anyway?

Without either Devin Williams or Luke Weaver, Boone turned to newcomer Fernando Cruz to relieve Mark Leiter Jr. in the eighth inning. It went very well. He had Kyle Isbel staring at a knuckling splitter in the zone, then sent Bobby Witt Jr. packing with a flail.

Yankees' Fernando Cruz does Dellin Betances impression, Cody Bellinger ends game vs. Royals with headlong dive

Hmm. Stands up tall. Wears 60-something on his back. Uncorks filthy breakers. Semi-struts as he spins. Remind you of anyone? Anyone named Dellin Betances?

The eighth inning went so nicely that the undermanned Boone doubled down in the ninth, and when Vinnie Pasquantino's leadoff single was quickly erased on a Salvador Pérez double play, it seemed like Boone had pressed the easy button.

But ... then came a Maikel Garcia two-out walk that was barely competitive. Cruz got frustrated and spiked a splitter, moving Garcia closer to his enemy Anthony Volpe, another bag closer to tying the game. Yankees nemesis MJ Melendez, who went off on Tuesday to no avail, managed to stay on Cruz's 2-1 offering and hook it into the right field corner.

And that was the exact same moment that every Yankee fan, in unison, realized that someone who wasn't Juan Soto was tracking the hooking liner perfectly. With a last-second sprawl, Cody Bellinger made the catch. It's going to be tough to find a more impressive game-ending Yankees catch. You probably have to go back to a hobbled Paul O'Neill tracking down Luis Polonia's liner in Game 5 of the 1996 World Series. Only partially kidding?

The Yankees won. Another reliever earned his pinstripes. A struggling outfielder put on his cape. A team stuck in neutral sent an AL Central contender further into the doldrums rather than allowing them to climb out of oblivion.

All in a dive's work.