It was less a calculated Cleveland threat and more a series of events that were not breaking right for Max Fried.<\/p>\n
After two quick first-inning outs, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez\u00a0flared a broken-bat looper in front of third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. for an infield single. <\/p>\n
Fried tried to pick him off, but first baseman Ben Rice couldn\u2019t handle the dart that moved Ram\u00edrez to second. <\/p>\n
Ram\u00edrez more cleanly stole third, and Fried could not finish off David Fry, who took first base when a full-count curveball from Fried went awry. <\/p>\n
Max Fried throws a pitch during the Yankees\u2019 win against the Guardians on June 5. Charles Wenzelberg<\/p>\n
Max Fried reacts during the Yankees\u2019 win against the Guardians on June 5. Charles Wenzelberg<\/p>\n
Fry stole second, and Fried engaged in a long, eight-pitch battle with Carlos Santana, the game feeling \u2014 for a second straight start and for really only the second time this season \u2014 as if Fried might lack complete control.<\/p>\n
But like the lefty\u2019s gorgeous curveball, which looks as if it slips out of his hand before it begins its plunge, the night abruptly reversed.<\/p>\n
Cody Bellinger rounds the bases during the Yankees\u2019 win on June 5. Charles Wenzelberg<\/p>\n
Aaron Judge (l.) and Cody Bellinger (r.) celebrate after scoring on Bellinger\u2019s home run on June 5. Charles Wenzelberg<\/p>\n
Arguably the best pitcher in the American League escaped that first-inning jam by inducing a pop-up to Santana, which essentially was the first and only Guardians chance against Fried in a 4-0, series-clinching Yankees victory in front of 41,665 in The Bronx on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Yankees (38-23) have won eight of their past nine series and matched a high-water mark in reaching 15 games over .500. <\/p>\n
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After a snoozer of a shutout loss Wednesday, the Yankees bounced back.<\/p>\n
And after Fried endured a rough day at Dodger Stadium on Friday, he, too, showed resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was less a calculated Cleveland threat and more a series of events that were not breaking right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,51,108,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-82572","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-cleveland-guardians","10":"tag-max-fried","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkyankees","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114633993445248852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82572","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=82572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}