Max Fried delivered a gritty, ace-level performance on Tuesday night in the Bronx, helping the New York Yankees to a much-needed 7-5 win over the Tampa Bay Rays and trimming the Toronto Blue Jays’ lead in the American League East to four games.

The Blue Jays are on a three-game losing streak, and with their 16-4 loss to the lowly Orioles in the first game of a day/night double-header, are now more than justified in sounding the alarm bells on their bullpen.

The Blue Jays embarrassed the Yankees with an 8–4 win to clinch the season series and the AL East lead with their 60th win.

“Just not good enough,” said manager Aaron Boone, who along with pitching coach Matt Blake was ejected in the seventh inning for arguing balls and strikes. “We’ve got to obviously tighten it up. Confident we will. We’ll continue to work at it. We have good defenders here. But tonight was obviously a rough night for us.”

Adley Rutschman doubled home the tiebreaking run in the bottom of the eighth inning, and the Baltimore Orioles completed a doubleheader sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays, 3-2, on Tuesday night.

The Toronto Blue Jays have firm control of the AL East Division while the New York Yankees are dealing with what could be a critical injury.

Probably a little better than the Bronx Bombers, who got schooled again by the Toronto Blue Jays and nearly swept at home by the Philadelphia Phillies, while along the way losing Triple Crown threat Aaron Judge for at least 10 days with a flexor strain in his right elbow.

Bo Bichette hit a two-run homer, Chris Bassitt struck out eight in a season-high 7 1/3 innings and the Toronto Blue Jays took advantage of four New York errors to beat the sloppy Yankees 8-4.