Fried Pancakes Former Indians. Bellinger Supplies Sugar. NY 4 Cleveland 0

June 6, 2025 paperbacklou 2025 0
Max Fried threw 6 innings of 1-hit, shutout ball, striking out 7 and walking 2.

Max Fried pancaked the team formerly known as the Indians with 6 innings of 1-hit, shutout ball, and Cody Bellinger supplied sugar, juice and spice — making a terrific leaping catch at the wall in right, hitting a 2-run homer, and driving in a 3rd run with an RBI single after Aaron Judge was intentionally walked to face him (moving the runner to scoring position!) — for a 4-0 Yankee win on a Beautiful Thursday night in the Bronx.

Tim Hill came in and got out of a bases-loaded, 1-out jam in the top of the 7th to save the day with a strikeout and fly out, then pitched a shutout 8th.

Jonathan Loaisiga pitched a 1-2-3 shutout 9th.

Fried left after 6 innings and 103 pitches.

“He’s really good,” said manager Aaron Boone about Fried. “They made him work; I don’t know how many foul balls they had on the night, but it was just a lot of deep 3-2 counts. He had to work for it pretty hard tonite, but I thought the stuff was great. He had a lot of swing and miss going, and he featured a little bit of everything.”

NY improves to 38-23 and remain 5.5 games in 1st in the AL East. Cleveland drops to 33-28.

1. Fried Pancakes

The only hit Fried allowed was a broken-bat infield single in the 1st by Jose Ramirez. The tough Cleveland lineup worked him all night, but he got them out anyway with his filthy stuff — the four-seam fastball that goes 91-97 MPH, the filthy 73-MPH curveball, the nasty 78-MPH sweeper, the 94-MPH sinker, and the occasional 85-MPH changeup.

2. Bellinger Sugar — Helps Fried Fry Fry

Bellinger’s great catch came with 1 out and nobody on in the top of the 4th, robbing David Fry of a double off the wall — helping Fried fry Fry.

3. Bellinger Juice — 2-Run HR

On the other hill was 25-year-old, 6’4 righty Slade Cecconi — who pitched a very good game — 5 innings of 5-hit, 2-run ball.

He was pitching a shutout into the 4th when the Yanks got to him when with 1 out, Aaron Judge doubled to right, and Cody Bellinger hit a 398-foot homer to right center for a 2-0 Yankee lead.

4. Hill Saves the Day in 7th

Mark Leiter Jr. came in to pitch the 7th — and got in trouble — single to Jose Ramirez, strike out of Fry, and single by Carlos Santana put 2 on and 1 out.

Leiter was then bitten by his infield defense — Gabriel Arias hit a grounder to the shortstop hole that Anthony Volpe fielded and threw to Jazz Chisholm Jr. at 3rd — which — just like in the World Series — Jazz failed to catch.

The error was charged to Volpe on the throw; Yankee fans were mixed as to whose fault it was.

In any case it was bases loaded, 1 out in a 2-0 game.

In came Tim Hill — and he struck out Bo Naylor swinging and got Noel to fly out to right. PHEW.

Hill came back out for the 8th after the Yanks had made it 4-0 in the bottom of the 7th — and pitched a 1-2-3 shutout inning.

5. Bellinger Spice — After Judge Intentionally Walked

With 2 outs in the bottom of the 7th, Cleveland intentionally walked Aaron Judge with Trent Grisham on 1st base — amazingly moving the runner Grisham into scoring position — and brought in tough lefty Kolby Allard to face the lefty Bellinger. The move backfired when Bellinger singled in a run to center making it 3-0.

The move backfired even more when next batter Jazz Chisholm Jr. (also a lefty) singled in a run to make it 4-0.

6. Loaisiga for the 9th

More good news for the Yanks: Jonathan Loaisiga pitched the 9th — and threw down a 1-2-3 shutout inning — strikeout of Ramirez, fly out of Kyle Manzardo, and groundout of Carlos Santana for the old ballgame.

The Boxscore

https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401695834

 

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