BRONX, NY — Aaron Boone overmanaged, and it burned him.

Starting pitcher Max Fried had been untouchable on Tuesday at Yankee Stadium for Game 1 against the Boston Red Sox, keeping the Bronx Bombers' arch rivals scoreless through six innings, although he had been laboring as the night progressed.

Working with a 1-0 lead and needing just 37 pitches to get through the first three innings, a missed strike-three call on a walk to Red Sox catcher Carlos Narvaez helped create a 24-pitch fourth inning. He needed 18 to get through the fifth after walking Rob Refsnyder. Another missed call on Narvaez extended his sixth inning to 20 pitches.

At 99 pitches through six innings, Boone gave the southpaw ace one more batter in Boston's Jarren Duran, a lefty, whom Fried disposed of in just three pitches

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