Max Fried delivered eight scoreless innings to lead the New York Yankees to a 4-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on Wednesday evening. Amed Rosario drove in all four runs with a first-inning homer and a third-inning sacrifice fly. The win marked the Yankees' fifth straight victory.
The Yankees carried a three-run lead into the game after Rosario's homer in the first inning cleared the Green Monster. Fried took the mound and held the Red Sox scoreless through eight innings, allowing just three hits and two walks while striking out nine batters. New York came within one out of a third consecutive shutout, a feat last achieved in June 1962 by pitchers Ralph Terry, Bill Stafford and Whitey Ford following starts by Ryan Weathers and Luis Gil this season. Rosario added a sacrifice fly in the third, accounting for all the Yankees' scoring in the contest. Fried faced his toughest moment in the second inning when a walk and a double by Jarren Duran put runners at second and third with none out. He escaped the jam with three consecutive strikeouts. The performance helped extend New York's winning streak amid a historically offense-heavy team legacy.
