Yankees reliever Cruz makes spectacular sliding catch on bunt in 3-2 win

In Arlington on a Tuesday night, a pitcher remembered he was once an infielder, and that memory may have saved a ballgame. Fernando Cruz of the New York Yankees dove across the infield dirt, caught a bunt from his back, and threw to third base in a single fluid act of improvised brilliance — a moment that speaks to how athletic identity, once forged, is never fully surrendered. The Yankees held on 3-2, their record now the finest in the American League, carried forward by both the spectacular and the steady.