Kyle Bradish Just Pitched the Yankees Into Oblivion, and New York Has a Max Fried Problem

Kyle Bradish turned Camden Yards into a Yankees graveyard on Wednesday afternoon. The Baltimore right hander held New York to a single hit over six innings, striking out seven while walking just three as the Orioles dominated the rubber match 7-0. This wasn't a close game. This was a shutout that felt like a statement.

The Yankees managed only one hit until the fifth inning, when Jazz Chisholm Jr. finally got a double. That's not baseball anymore, that's batting practice in reverse. But here's where it gets worse for New York: Max Fried, their starting pitcher, left after just three innings with left elbow soreness. The team announced he'll be evaluated and get imaging Thursday back in New York. Fried had already given up three runs on five hits and a walk, throwing just 61 pitches before heading to the clubhouse. The Yankees were already trailing 3-0 when he left the game.

The Orioles Weren't Messing Around

Baltimore came out swinging. Coby Mayo drove in a run with a two-out double in the third inning to get things started. Adley Rutschman followed with a sacrifice fly in that same inning, and then Pete Alonso ripped an RBI single to make it 3-0.

The damage got worse in the fifth when Rutschman absolutely crushed a two-run homer off Paul Blackburn, who had come in after Fried left. That blast was Rutschman's second homer this month and his sixth on the season. Blaze Alexander, who went 3-for-4 on the day, drove in two more runs with a single in the sixth to push it to 7-0. The Orioles have now won three of their last four games while the Yankees have dropped five of their last six.

Yankees in Free Fall

Anthony Volpe made his major league season debut for New York and went 0-for-3 at the plate while committing an eighth-inning error in the field. The Yankees managed five walks in the game but couldn't do anything with them. Trent Grisham and Spencer Jones each drew two walks, but New York's bats stayed ice cold.

Bradish was nearly perfect through six innings, finishing with seven strikeouts and 100 pitches thrown. The Orioles' relief crew was just as dominant: Keegan Akin, Dietrich Enns, and Yennier Cano each pitched a clean inning of hitless relief to complete the shutout.

The game started five and a half hours earlier than originally scheduled because of weather concerns, but the Orioles didn't need the extra time to make their point. New York's got real trouble on the mound right now with Fried banged up, and their bats are nowhere near solving what Bradish threw at them.

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