Overview
- Fried returned from a two-month injured list stint Wednesday and threw five scoreless innings, allowing one hit, one walk and striking out seven on 57 pitches.
- The start was a planned, controlled comeback cleared by manager Aaron Boone and the Yankees’ training staff and featured an above-season-average four-seam velocity that produced 10 swings-and-misses.
- Fried retired his last 12 batters and induced 37 of his 57 pitches for strikes, showing the command and stuff the Yankees lacked when he left with a left-elbow bone bruise in mid-May.
- New York won the nightcap 2-0 on a two-out seventh-inning double by Jasson Domínguez and an Anthony Volpe RBI single, with Paul Blackburn throwing two hitless relief innings to preserve the lead.
- With Fried and Gerrit Cole both active in the rotation, the Yankees' front end is measurably deeper for the stretch run which could affect how they manage starters and bullpen usage down the final weeks.