This article was originally published on www.si.com/fannation/mlb/fastball as Max Fried on Wrong Side of Personal History in Recent Rough Stretch For Yankees. After a win on Sunday against the St. Louis Cardinals, the New York Yankees are 67-57, and they are now just 0.5 games back of the top wild card spot in the American League.

For so much of the season, Max Fried had been brilliant. The New York Yankees signed Fried this offseason to help helm their rotation with Gerrit Cole, and once Cole sustained a season-ending elbow injury, this became fully Fried's show.

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