Max Fried threw seven scoreless innings to outduel high school teammate Jack Flaherty, Ben Rice hit a two-run homer in the seventh and AL MVP Aaron Judge drove in two more runs to help the New York Ya

And the Yankees needed every bit of it. Because Wednesday afternoon’s opposing pitcher, Jack Flaherty, a high school teammate of Fried’s at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, was just as good. But Fried outlasted Flaherty,