Yankees come back to beat Rays 7-5 behind Bellinger, Volpe and Fried

NEW YORK AP Cody Bellinger hit a three-run homer Anthony Volpe also went deep and the New York Yankees erased an early deficit Tuesday night in a - mastery over the Tampa Bay Rays Max Fried recovered from a rough start and threw a career-high pitches in innings Volpe delivered a tiebreaking single in the fourth and launched a -foot homer to center field in the eighth the longest of his career He also committed two throwing errors at shortstop the second one on a play that should have ended the competition That gave Tampa Bay another chance before Devin Williams struck out All-Star Jonathan Aranda with runners at second and third for his th save New York pulled within four games of first-place Toronto in the AL East after falling back last weekend Fried - allowed four runs two earned and four hits while surpassing his previous career high of pitches for Atlanta at Philadelphia in September On a sweltering -degree night Fried gave up a two-run triple to Jonny DeLuca in the first inning three batters after Volpe s throwing error on a forceout attempt at second base Aranda homered leading off the third to make it - but Fried retired his next hitters Bellinger s drive off starter Joe Boyle - tied it in the bottom half and Volpe put the Yankees ahead with his RBI single in the fourth Then he stole third and scored on a throwing error by new Rays catcher Nick Fortes Paul Goldschmidt added a run-scoring single that made it - Fried was removed after giving up an RBI double to Taylor Walls in the seventh Key moments Yankees reliever Jonathan Lo isiga retired Yandy D az to end the seventh and gave up consecutive hits in the eighth before Volpe started a double play on Christopher Morel s grounder Key stats Bellinger reached homers for the fifth time Volpe hit his fifth homer in games but he leads the majors with errors The Rays dropped to - in their last games following a - stretch Up next Yankees rookie Will Warren - ERA opposes Rays RHP Zack Littell - on Wednesday night AP MLB https apnews com hub mlb Source