Overview

• Max Fried delivered seven scoreless innings with a career-high-tying 13 strikeouts in the Yankees’ 7-0 win at Baltimore, giving him an MLB-leading 18th victory and moving New York within three games of Toronto in the AL East.
• Cleveland completed a three-game sweep in Detroit with Jose Ramirez’s tiebreaking two-run homer in the seventh for a 3-1 win, pulling the Guardians to 3.5 games behind the Tigers.
• Detroit’s skid continued with six losses in seven games and 15 in 22, leaving its AL Central lead diminished entering a final stretch that includes another three-game set against Cleveland on Sept. 23-25.
• Boston fell 5-3 to Oakland and dropped to the third AL Wild Card slot, with the hot Guardians just 1.5 games back; the Red Sox hold the season-series tiebreaker over Cleveland.
• Baltimore was officially eliminated earlier in the week and opened its final homestand with a shutout loss to New York, reinforcing an offseason focus on hiring decisions and pitching upgrades as the Orioles and Yankees still meet seven times over the final 10 days.