Max Fried flirts with no-hitter as Yankees beat Rays 4-0
New York Yankees pitcher Max Fried missed a no-hitter in the eighth inning when the official scorer changed a previous decision to a hit in the Yankees' 4-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays, in a game that included the first ejection of the season for manager Aaron Boone.Rookie Chandler Simpson hit a grounder into the hole between first and second with one out in the sixth inning and reached when the ball bounced off the glove of first baseman Paul Goldschmidt.The official scorer, Bill Mathews, had initially ruled the play as an error by the Yankees first baseman.Fried had not allowed any hits for seven innings and was about to make his first pitch of the eighth inning, when Mathews announced that he changed the decision from an error to an infield hit.Mathews argued that he reviewed several video […]
