Overview
- Max Fried (9-2, 1.89 ERA) will start for New York against Baltimore’s Tomoyuki Sugano in Friday night’s opener.
- Jazz Chisholm Jr. ended the Yankees’ 30-inning scoreless stretch with a homer and Cody Bellinger collected three of their 12 hits in Thursday’s 7-3 victory.
- Baltimore has gone 10-for-21 with runners in scoring position over its last three games and rebounded from a blown eight-run lead with a 4-1 win on Thursday.
- Aaron Judge leads the Yankees with 26 home runs, while Gunnar Henderson is batting .396 during his season-high 13-game hitting streak.
- Both teams are coping with key absences, with New York missing Gerrit Cole and Luis Gil and Baltimore without Tyler Wells and Grayson Rodriguez.