{"id":656319,"date":"2026-04-01T09:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/656319\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:54:29","slug":"fried-runs-scoreless-streak-to-13-1-3-innings-to-start-season-carrying-yankees-banged-up-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/656319\/","title":{"rendered":"Fried runs scoreless streak to 13 1\/3 innings to start season, carrying Yankees’ banged-up rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Max Fried<\/a> bemoaned his first start of the season, when he struggled to throw strikes at times.<\/p>\n

The New York Yankees<\/a> left-hander filled up the zone Tuesday night, but the end results of each outing were the same: no runs on the scoreboard, and a win, the latest one 5-0 against the Seattle Mariners. <\/p>\n

“There weren’t times where I was just fighting to throw strikes,\u201d Fried said. \u201cI felt like I was actually able to locate today, which made things a lot easier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fried breezed through seven innings and won his career-high eighth straight regular-season start dating to Aug. 27. He has not given up a run in 13 1\/3 innings this year. He tossed 6 1\/3 innings of two-hit ball in a win at San Francisco on opening night last Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Yankees manager Aaron Boone has been more than pleased with Fried, who is in the second season of a $218 million, eight-year contract.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was terrific tonight,\u201d Boone said. \u201cHe was on point from the start. Just in total control of the game and had everything going for him, different ways to get you out. I thought he changed speeds really well, like, had good life to his fastball, just back and forth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fried did an exemplary job of keeping hitters off balance in 2025, too. In his first season in the Big Apple, he went 19-5 with a 2.86 ERA, made his fourth All-Star team and finished fourth in AL Cy Young Award voting. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s dominant,\u201d said Yankees designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>, who went 2 for 4 with two RBIs. \u201cContinuing from last year, making it tough on the guys. Making them off balance, working in and out.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Fried\u2019s contributions were greatly appreciated in New York last season, they are perhaps even more so in 2026 because the Yankees’ rotation is down a couple of top arms. <\/p>\n

Left-hander Carlos Rodon<\/a> experienced right hamstring tightness on Tuesday while going through his throwing program, which could delay his return from elbow surgery. Former Cy Young Award winner Gerrit Cole<\/a>, who missed the 2025 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery, remains sidelined. <\/p>\n

Even without Rod\u00f3n and Cole, New York\u2019s rotation has been arguably its greatest strength amid a 4-1 start. The Yankees have only given up three runs in five games and recorded three shutouts as a team, two of which have been started by Fried. <\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone\u2019s contributed,\u201d Boone said. \u201cObviously Max now, going into the seventh or completed the seventh in back-to-back ones. And everyone else from the starting rotation has gone out and held them down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nobody has been more dominant than Fried, though, who has been sublime in pinstripes. He is setting the example for the rest of the staff, a group that has more than held its own during New York\u2019s hot start. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re throwing the ball well right now,\u201d Fried said, \u201cso, we\u2019re just trying to keep it rolling.\u201d <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Max Fried bemoaned his first start of the season, when he struggled to throw strikes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,2004,2281,310,19,108,4,1690,62,2548,2547,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-656319","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-carlos-rodon","10":"tag-gerrit-cole","11":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","12":"tag-major-league-baseball","13":"tag-max-fried","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-yankees","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkyankees","19":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116328849910277609","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656319","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=656319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}