Max Fried continued his turnaround from a rough stretch by pitching seven innings and earning his fourth straight victory as the New York Yankees inched closer to the visiting Toronto Blue Jays in the American League East race with a 4-3 victory on Sunday afternoon.

The Yankees (80-63) won for the 11th time in 14 games since losing three straight to the Boston Red Sox Aug. 21-23 and pulled within two games of the Blue Jays (82-61).

Fried (14-5) allowed three runs on six hits and has a 1.67 ERA in his past four outings after posting a 6.80 ERA in his previous eight starts from July 1-Aug. 16. Fried struck out four, walked one, withstood two errors and got nine groundouts, including a double play to end the fifth.

Ben Rice hit a three-run homer four batters into the game off Max Scherzer

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