Max Fried wasn’t his sharpest in Tuesday’s 11-inning, 2-1 loss to the Mariners, however it wasn’t his fault the Yankees fell in Seattle.
Nor was it Tim Hill’s, although he surrendered a walk-off single to J.P Crawford.
As an alternative, blame for the defeat must be positioned on the Yankees’ incapability to drive in computerized ghost runners on the street, a reasonably particular however repeated challenge for the staff this season.
With Tuesday’s recreation within the books, the Yankees have now stranded the ghost runner in every of the 5 additional innings they’ve performed as guests this yr. This beforehand occurred twice in an 11-inning loss to the Pirates on April 6 and as soon as in a 10-inning loss to the Rays on April 19.
On Tuesday, the Yankees managed to tie the sport within the ninth with no hit, as Mariners nearer Andrés Muñoz hit Paul Goldschmidt earlier than an Anthony Volpe test swing led to a throwing error on a run-scoring play on the plate. However they by no means took the lead — Aaron Boone earned himself an ejection for arguing balls and strikes after a Jasson Domínguez strikeout — earlier than the tip of regulation.
No matter momentum the Yankees had on their facet vanished in extras, which began off with DJ LeMahieu’s first huge league at-bat since final September.
He struck out towards Carlos Vargas. Trent Grisham did the identical earlier than an intentional stroll was issued to Aaron Choose. Cody Bellinger then flew out to proper.
With Devin Williams conserving Seattle off the board within the backside of the tenth, Pablo Reyes started the eleventh with a groundout that moved Bellinger to 3rd. However Casey Legumina obtained a pop up out of Austin Wells. Volpe drew a stroll after that, however a Domínguez groundout ended that risk as nicely.
The Mariners then took care of enterprise after giving their lead away within the ninth.
The Yankees had different alternatives to attain previous to extras, however they ended the night time 0-for-14 with runners in scoring place. Additionally they left 11 males on base as they tied a franchise report for probably the most hitless at-bats with runners in scoring place.
Bryan Woo had one thing to do with that, as he blanked the Yankees for six.1 innings. The hard-throwing righty, who retired 15 straight previous to a Trent Grisham single within the sixth, additionally struck out six, walked none, and allowed 4 hits over 88 pitches.
Fried, in the meantime, lacked effectivity and command over his expansive arsenal because the Mariners saved fouling balls off. Nonetheless, he held Seattle to only one earned run over 5 innings in his model of an off night time.
The run got here on a fourth-inning Cal Raleigh double, which turned Grisham round in middle area and allowed Julio Rodríguez to attain from first base.
Fried additionally tallied 4 hits, two walks and 5 strikeouts over 91 pitches in his second-shortest begin as a Yankee. He now has a 1.11 ERA, the bottom ever by any Yankees pitcher in his first 9 begins of the season (minimal 50 innings), per Stathead’s Katie Sharp.
The Bombers had been beforehand 8-0 with their new ace on the mound this season.
With the Yankees now not undefeated behind Fried and their sequence with the M’s tied at one, Will Warren will face Luis Castillo in Wednesday’s finale.
Warren is coming off the most effective begin of his profession, because the rookie surrendered only one earned run, walked one and struck out seven over 7.1 innings towards the A’s on Could 9.
Initially Printed: Could 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM EDT
