{"id":1032629,"date":"2026-08-30T08:29:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T08:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1032629\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T08:29:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T08:29:28","slug":"yankees-max-fried-solid-in-first-start-back-after-speedy-il-stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1032629\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ Max Fried solid in first start back after speedy IL stint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twelve days ago, Max Fried landed on the injured list.<\/p>\n

The initial reaction was that it could be it for him this year, the second time he\u2019d been sidelined with the same bone bruise in his left elbow.<\/p>\n

Less than two weeks later, the left-hander was back on the mound for the Yankees in The Bronx.<\/p>\n

Fried looked like himself Saturday night, though it wasn\u2019t a long outing in a 9-2 victory that earned them a split of the day-night doubleheader<\/a> against the Red Sox. He struck out four, walked three and allowed one earned run over 3 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings while throwing 63 pitches.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was sharper earlier than late, but nice to get back out there, get your competitive juices going,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the end of the day, us being able to win the game was really big.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fried allowed a solo homer to Nick Sogard in the third inning but didn\u2019t let Boston do any more damage. The Red Sox did put two runners on in the third with one out, but Fried retired Ceddanne Rafaela and Wilyer Abreu to end the threat. He ended his evening on a high note by striking out Caleb Durbin and Andruw Monasterio.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, overall, he threw the ball pretty well, gave us enough there at the start,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said. \u201cI thought he was pretty good overall. He kind of featured everything and had a feel for everything, so that was good to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MaxMax Fried throws a pitch during the third inning of the Yankees\u2019 9-2 win over the Red Sox in Game 2 of a split doubleheader on Aug. 29, 2026 at the Stadium. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\"NewMax Fried hands the ball to manager Aaron Boone after being being taken out in the fourth inning of the Yankees\u2019 blowout win over the Red Sox in Game 2 of a split doubleheader. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

The one concern with Fried\u2019s outing was his four-seam fastball\u2019s velocity was a bit down. On the year, he has averaged 95 mph on that pitch, which on Saturday was at 93.8 mph. His cutter also was down, from 92 to 90.8. Oddly, his sinker was slightly up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not something that I\u2019m too worried about,\u201d Fried said. \u201cI feel like I was still able to make some good pitches, keep them off-balance, and I was feeling good.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The hope is that Fried is back for the remainder of the season. He said this latest IL stint was the result of one pitch irritating the elbow. He doesn\u2019t expect to miss any more time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel great,\u201d Fried said. \u201cVery, very confident.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twelve days ago, Max Fried landed on the injured list. The initial reaction was that it could be…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1032630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,27065,1266,405,403,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1032629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-max-fried","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117183526842776240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}