"By the fourth inning Sunday, shortly after 5 p.m., the clock already was ticking on Max Fried. Everybody at Rogers Centre knew it, too. He still was on the mound, gripping a baseball, but the game was out of his hands. With the Yankees already trailing by five runs and No. 8 hitter Andres Gimenez leading off the fourth for the Blue Jays, manager Aaron Boone made the bullpen call he never expected to make: Start warming up Will Warren."
"Fried had just cracked 40 pitches and the Yankees couldn't risk having him throw many more, especially to the top of a lineup that had been treating their staff like a batting-practice session during the first two games of this Division Series. Incredibly, even the Yankees' $218 million ace, a top-three Cy Young Award contender this season, was no better than mop-up man Paul Blackburn had been in Game 1 against these Toronto terminators."
Max Fried was removed early in the fourth inning after allowing multiple runs and cracking 40 pitches, unable to contain the Blue Jays' offense. Toronto chased him with a relentless attack, using infield hits, walks and sustained pressure on the top of the Yankees lineup. Manager Aaron Boone summoned the bullpen earlier than expected, signaling concern over Fried's effectiveness. The Blue Jays scored heavily, producing a 13-7 victory that put the Yankees one loss from elimination in the best-of-five ALDS. The crowd of 44,764 reacted loudly as Toronto dominated pitching and hitting.
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