Once again, Max Fried played stopper for the New York Yankees. Fried held the Tampa Bay Rays to one hit (a single) in seven shutout innings Friday night to get the Yankees back into the win column (NY 3,

The Yankees improved to 7-for-7 in Fried starts Friday, when the lefty one-hit the Rays over seven brilliant innings in a 3-0, series-opening victory in front of 45,189 in The Bronx.

Similar to two weekends ago in Tampa, the Rays never had a chance again with Fried allowing one hit over seven innings in a 3-0 Yankees victory. All of the Yankees’ runs came on a fifth-inning homer by Paul Goldschmidt, who popped a two-out blast into the second row of the right-field seats off lefty reliever Mason Montgomery.