Yankees' Max Fried, for once, has no answers

TORONTO — By the fourth inning Sunday, shortly after 5 p.m., the clock already was ticking on Max Fried.

Everybody at Rogers Centre knew it, too. He still was on the mound, gripping a baseball, but the game was out of his hands.

With the Yankees already trailing by five runs and No. 8 hitter Andres Gimenez leading off the fourth for the Blue Jays, manager Aaron Boone made the bullpen call he never expected to make: Start warming up Will Warren.

Fried had just cracked 40 pitches and the Yankees couldn’t risk having him throw many more, especially to the top of a lineup that had been treating their staff like a batting-practice session during the first two games of this Division Series.

Incredibly, even the Yankees’ $218 million ace, a top-three Cy Young Award contender this season, was