Yankees' Max Fried starts rehab assignment with three-inning outing for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
Max Fried‘s first rehab outing is in the books.
The Yankees‘ left-handed pitcher, who went on the 15-day injured list in mid-May due to a left elbow bone bruise, started his assignment Friday for New York’s Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders against the Worcester Red Sox and went three innings.
He allowed two runs on five hits, one of which was a home run, while striking out three and throwing 52 pitches with 32 strikes.
Max Fried racks up three strikeouts across three innings in his first rehab outing!@Yankees | @swbrailriderspic.twitter.com/dXXtTDD4j2
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The first inning was a shaky one for Fried, who allowed three singles in the opening frame, starting with Nick Sogard‘s leadoff knock and soon followed by Andrew Knizner‘s two-out grounder up the middle that second baseman Marco Luciano did not corral and scored Sogard from third base.
Fried rebounded with a 1-2-3 second inning, including a leadoff strikeout of Allan Castro.
The southpaw, pitching with a 5-2 lead, started the third inning by retiring Sogard on a flyout until Nate Eaton‘s solo shot on a 2-1 pitch ended Fried’s streak of consecutive outs at five batters.
Mickey Gasper subsequently singled on a groundball to shortstop George Lombard Jr. before Fried bounced back with back-to-back groundouts to end the frame and outing overall.
Fried last pitched May 13 in the Yankees’ 7-0 loss at the Baltimore Orioles.
Through 10 games for New York this season, Fried is 4-3 with a 3.21 ERA and 1.01 WHIP in 61.2 IP.
As a first-year Yankee during the 2025 campaign, Fried went 19-5 with a 2.86 ERA in 32 starts.
