Pitching to the Boston Red Sox's righty-loaded lineup is tough enough for a lefty like Max Fried of the Yankees. It gets downright impossible when you lose the upper quadrant of the outside portion of the strike zone. Twice, in fact, it's disappeared entirely in key situations against patient Red Sox catcher Carlos Narvaez.
With two outs and nobody on in the fourth, Fried eventually found himself stretched to 24 pitches in the frame, inducing a clutch Jarren Duran strikeout after battling back from a 3-0 count with two runners on. Those runners took their bags in part because Fried wasn't given the outside corner against Narvaez, a battler if there's ever been one.