BALTIMORE — One comment by Max Fried after his 13-strikeout performance Thursday night against the Orioles had the potential to simultaneously delight Yankees fans and instill fear in any club the Yankees might face come October.

“I feel like I did toward the beginning of the year,” Fried said after a 7-0 victory over the Orioles in which he allowed three hits and a walk in seven innings and matched his career high in strikeouts.

From the beginning of the season until the end of June, Fried was as good as any pitcher in the American League. That includes the Tigers' Tarik Skubal, currently the presumed American League Cy Young Award winner.

Fried finished June with a 10-2 record and a 1.92 ERA through 17 starts and was very much in the discussion of Cy Young Award candidates as well

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