Yankees' Max Fried falters in ALDS Game 2 loss to Blue Jays

All year long, Max Fried was the Yankees’ stopper.

In 16 regular-season starts that followed a Yankees loss, Fried went 11-1 with a 1.82 ERA. The Yankees won 12 of those games.

But Fried faltered in Sunday’s Game 2 of the ALDS, delivering his worst start in nearly two months in a 13-7 loss to Toronto Blue Jays that left the Yankees on the brink of elimination.

The Blue Jays tagged Fried for seven runs in 3+ innings at Toronto’s Rogers Centre, rallying for eight hits and two walks against the Yankees’ ace.

The Yankees had hoped to even the ALDS behind Fried after their 10-1 loss in Game 1 . Instead, they return to the Bronx in an 0-2 hole in the best-of-five series.

With the back-to-back blowout losses, the Yankees set dubious franchise history. The 23 runs are the most the Yan