Yankees left-hander Max Fried loses no-hit bid in eighth

TAMPA, Fla. — New York Yankees left-hander Max Fried misplaced a no-hit bid in Sunday’s 4-0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays simply as the underside of the eighth inning was about to start out when the official scorer modified a sixth-inning name to a success after initially calling it an error.

Rookie Chandler Simpson hit a grounder into the opening between first and second with one out within the sixth and reached when the ball bounced off the glove of first baseman Paul Goldschmidt. Official scorer Invoice Mathews at first known as the play an error.

Fried was hitless by seven innings and was about to throw his first pitch of the eighth when Mathews introduced he modified the choice to a success. Mathews mentioned he checked out a number of video replays and decided Simpson would have overwhelmed any throw to first.

Jake Mangum then led off the eighth with a clear single to heart on Fried’s fifth pitch of the inning. Fried allowed two hits over 7⅔ innings, throwing 102 pitches.

“I thought the first hit was the first hit in the eighth there,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned. “I saw afterward that they had changed it. Look, we’re not going to beat him to the bag, so I get it, but it makes it a little bit dicey when it’s within the game — or obviously with a no-hitter going on, but the reality is it was a hit.”

Boone was stunned the preliminary name was an error.

“I scratch my head at the official scorers nightly,” he mentioned. “They throw an error up on the board at Yankee Stadium and then we go to these other places and they can fire up a hit with the best of them. It’s a different game in every other park.”

Fried, although, wasn’t fazed through the recreation, or within the clubhouse, after the win.

“After I came out,” Fried mentioned, when requested when he realized the scorer’s choice. “I had no idea, I looked up and saw two hits. It is what it is. I’m just happy we got the win.”

New York had made three defensive gems to maintain Tampa Bay hitless and led 3-0. Within the third, Fried hustled to first base to beat the speedy Simpson by half a step on a grounder to Goldschmidt.

Then to finish the fifth, Trent Grisham robbed Mangum with a diving catch in deep right-center earlier than throwing out Danny Jansen trying to tag up and go to second.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. sprinted 74 ft from his place at second base to make a falling, backhanded catch on Christopher Morel’s popup to shallow left-center.

“I’ve been trusting this defense all year,” Fried mentioned after the Yankees improved to 5-0 in video games he has began this season. “They had some unbelievable plays behind me today to be able to just keep attacking. It’s a lot easier when I know I can just hunt some contact and know that we’ve got some really good defenders behind me to go and make the play.”

Fried, 4-0 with a 1.42 ERA, signed a $218 million, eight-year contract with the Yankees through the offseason.

Grisham lined Ryan Pepiot’s third pitch of the sport into the right-center bleachers for his fifth profession leadoff homer. Grisham, who additionally homered Saturday off Shane Baz, hit leadoff Sunday for the primary time since June 4, 2023.

Cody Bellinger additionally homered off Pepiot to guide off the sixth inning, and Austin Wells homered in opposition to Garrett Cleavinger within the ninth. Within the third, Bellinger hit right into a run-scoring forceout.

Boone was ejected within the eighth inning for the fortieth time in his managerial profession and first time this season.

Aaron Decide hit a drive to deep left that was dominated foul, a choice upheld in a video evaluate, then took a known as third strike. Decide began to have phrases with plate umpire Adam Beck, and Boone got here out of the dugout and instantly was tossed.

“The audacity of the call standing is remarkable,” Boone mentioned. “It’s a home run.”

Decide concurred along with his supervisor, including that “it was a fair ball. It’s just tough in a situation like this, in a minor league park, where the foul poles aren’t that high. … They missed it and we’ve just got to move on.”

Joe Jimenez labored round a pair of walks within the eighth earlier than Raisel Iglesias retired the primary two batters of the ninth. J.D. Martinez homered simply over the wall in proper area on the subsequent pitch off Iglesias.

Fried pitched seven hitless innings for Atlanta on the New York Mets’ Citi Discipline and was eliminated after 109 pitches in a 4-1 win on Could 11, 2024.

Tampa Bay’s Triple-A Durham Bulls no-hit the Yankees’ Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders on Saturday.

The Related Press contributed to this report.