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.

Fried is a Los Angeles native and pitched at Harvard-Westlake High School. He was a first-round draft pick by the San Diego Padres in 2012 but never made a big-league appearance with them. In 2014, he was traded to Atlanta, where he put together an impressive run.