{"id":363871,"date":"2025-10-05T21:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/363871\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T21:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:49:13","slug":"max-fried-pummeled-pulled-early-in-startling-yankees-game-2-dud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/363871\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Fried pummeled, pulled early in startling Yankees Game 2 dud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 In an on-paper mismatch\u00a0that pitted ace Max Fried against rookie Trey Yesavage, the Yankees All-Star looked like the far more underwhelming arm.<\/p>\n<p>Fried exited in the fourth inning \u2014 recording just one more out than Luis Gil had a night earlier \u2014 and was charged with seven runs on eight hits and two walks in a startling Game 2 dud at Rogers Centre on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Two of those runs scored after Fried exited. He handed a two-on, none-out jam to Will Warren in the fourth. <\/p>\n<p>In his postseason debut, Warren loaded the bases with a walk and later surrendered a grand slam to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. that put the Yankees in a stunning, 9-0 hole.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.40659341;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37302318\" width=\"830\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10-05-25-new-york-112899771.jpg\" alt=\"Yankees starter Max Fried reacts after the second inning during Game 2 of the ALDS against the Blue Jays on Oct. 5, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-37302318\"  \/>Yankees starter Max Fried reacts after the second inning during Game 2 of the ALDS against the Blue Jays on Oct. 5, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.53523238;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37302319\" width=\"906\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10-05-25-new-york-112896232.jpg\" alt=\"Max Fried pitching for the Yankees against the Blue Jays in Game 2 of the ALDS on Oct. 5, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-37302319\"  \/>Max Fried pitching for the Yankees against the Blue Jays in Game 2 of the ALDS on Oct. 5, 2025. Jason Szenes \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>In a near must-win, trailing 1-0 in a best-of-five, Fried could not deliver. He allowed two runs in the second, when Daulton Varsho doubled (and reached third on an Aaron Judge error) before Ernie Clement sat on a first-pitch curveball that he blasted to left for a two-run edge.<\/p>\n<p>The Jays added on the third, when a walk and three singles \u2014 including plenty of hard contact, such as another Varsho double and a rocket single into left from Clement \u2014 scored three more.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Yesavage \u2014 a 22-year-old with 14 career major league innings \u2014 had not allowed a hit through five innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 In an on-paper mismatch\u00a0that pitted ace Max Fried against rookie Trey Yesavage, the Yankees All-Star looked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,108,4,2305,62,185,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-363871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-bluejays","11":"tag-max-fried","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-mlb-playoffs","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-toronto","17":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","18":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115323768928355213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363871","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=363871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}