With the 2025 regular season coming to a close, the New York Yankees remain in striking distance of the AL East crown, with the Toronto Blue Jays still up by three games with just nine games remaining. But a performance such as the one starting pitcher Max Fried put up on Thursday goes a long way towards instilling confidence that the Yankees are going to make noise in the postseason regardless of which seed they enter proceedings as.

Fried was dominant against the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday, throwing seven innings of shutout baseball and striking out 13 while allowing just four baserunners all night long. The lefty put the Orioles through the ringer for the entirety of the night and prevented them from getting much of a rhythm, and his entire pitch mix was working wonders.

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