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Max Fried struggled early in his start against the Red Sox, frustrated by two walks in the first two innings. Despite the challenges, he managed to escape a second-inning jam without allowing any runs.
BOSTON â Yankees starter Max Fried was mad at himself two batters into his start Wednesday night at Fenway Park. All it took was Willson Contreras working a five-pitch walk with one out in the Red Sox first.
The lefty hates walking batters anytime, but giving the Red Sox a free baserunner after being handed a 3-0 lead before he threw a pitch was unacceptable in the aceâs quest-for-pitching-perfection world.
The next inning, Fried became more upset at himself when leadoff hitter Andrew Monasterio walked and it led to a major threat after Jarren Duran doubled to put two runners in scoring position with nobody out.
Neither free pass cost the Yankees any runs, but when Fried returned to the dugout after he struck out three in a row to escape the second-inning jam, he was approached by his pitching coach.
âHey, itâs not working,â Matt Blake said. âWhen youâre gonna cut it out?ââ
Blake wanted Fried to stop pitching with a windup with nobody on base because his command was much better from the stretch.
âYouâre right,â Fried responded. âI just gotta cut it and figure it out.â
There was nothing to figure out.
Fried ended up scattering five hits over eight scoreless innings with nine strikeout and the Yankees won 4-1 to make it five in a row.
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Max Fried faced difficulties early in the game, walking two batters in the first two innings, which frustrated him despite not allowing any runs.
Fried was visibly upset with himself for walking batters, especially after being given a 3-0 lead before throwing a pitch.
No, the Yankees did not allow any runs during Fried's early struggles, as he managed to escape a second-inning jam.
In the second inning, Fried faced a major threat after a walk and a double put two runners in scoring position with no outs, but he struck out three batters to escape.
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Abandoning the windup was a big key.
âSometimes when youâre in a stubborn mood (youâd be reluctant), but other times youâre willing to accept whatâs been going on,â Fried said. âItâs not like itâs just been one game. Itâs been every game this year.
âSo after a month, you can sit there and say, âHey, itâs just itâs not working. Letâs work on it in-between starts, see if we can figure it out.â But if not, we know that the stretch is good and we can just roll with that.
This was a nice rebound start for Fried, who allowed a season-high five runs over 5 1/3 innings in a loss to the Angels in his previous outing.
âI definitely felt more like myself,â said Fried, who is 3-1 with a 2.40 ERA in six starts.
Fried, by the way, hopes to get back to pitching out of a windup at some point.
âThe windup is something that Iâve always been really comfortable with and I really like,â he said, âbut for whatever reason this year Iâve walked a ton of guys in the windup and I havenât walked anyone in the stretch.
âSo when you look at the numbers like that, you sit there and you walk two guys early on, knowing that the walks have really hurt me, especially with no one on base, I just said, âYou know what? Youâve gotta suck up your pride and just say whateverâs working.ââ
The Yankees were one strike away from making it three shutout wins in a row before Duranâs lefty-on-lefty single to center off Brent Headrick with two outs in the Boston ninth. Trevor Story scored from second base on the hit, having led off with a single and advancing into scoring position on a defensive indifference.
The scoreless-inning streak is over, but Yankees starters havenât allowed a run over 27 2/3 innings heading into Thursday nightâs series finale.
The Yankees will try to keep it going and sweep the Red Sox with New England native Cam Schlittler making his first career start at Fenway Park.
âItâs been incredible,â designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton said. âTheyâve been dominant. Theyâre really locked in. Itâs easier on the offensive side when theyâre dominant like that.â
Boone expects left-hander Ryan Weathers to make his scheduled start Saturday night in Houston after leaving the Yankees on Wednesday to go on paternity leave.
Reliever Jake Bird was called up from Triple-A to take Weatherâs roster spot.
In his second week of rehab games, Anthony Volpe played for the second night in a row for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, which lost 2-0 at home to Rochester.
Starting at shortstop and leading off, Volpe was 0-for-3 with a strikeout before departing after seven innings.
Volpe is hitting .333 with one homer and five strikeouts over 18 at-bats in six rehab games, the first four with Double-A Somerset last week.
The Yankees havenât announced a ballpark return date for Volpe, who had offseason labrum surgery, but next week seemingly is a real possibility.
In Volpeâs first two at-bats, he faced former Yankees farmhand Chandler Champlain, a 2022 ninth-round draft pick out of USC.
The righty was traded to the Royals in the July 2023 deal that sent outfielder Andrew Benintendi to New York, then released by KC this past March and signed by the Nationals five days later.
In his return season from a fractured leg, Oswaldo Cabrera didnât hit much for the Yankees in spring training and heâs now followed his option to Triple-A with a slow start.
After going 1-for-3 on Wednesday, the switch-hitter is batting .162 with two homers and six RBIs in 19 games. In 46 plate appearances, heâs struck out 20 times.
Before spring training, Cabrera was fully healed from his horrific season-ending injury last May 12 in Seattle, a fractured left ankle on a slide into home plate.
Cabrera has been playing six positions for Scranton. Heâs made eight starts at shortstop, three at third base, one at second, one at first, three in right field and two in left. His only error was in one of his 23 chances at short.
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