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LOS ANGELES <\/b>\u2014 Yankees left-hander Max Fried showed a different side on the Dodger Stadium mound Friday night, then another standing at his locker talking about his first loss of the season.<\/p>\n

Two batters into an 8-5 Dodgers win, Aaron Judge hit his 19th homer of the season for a 1-0 Yankees lead in the opener of the World Series rematch weekend.<\/p>\n

Given an early edge, Fried grooved a belt-high, first-pitch fastball to Shohei Ohtani, who belted the mistake over the center-field wall. Giving up the lead right away on a mistake pitch made Fried mad at himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t trying to go up, [in the strike zone]\u201d Fried said.<\/p>\n

Maybe he wasn\u2019t. but Fried did it again in the sixth, when Ohtani hit an identical pitch for his 22nd home run of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made two mistakes in the same spot and he hit them out,\u201d Fried said.<\/p>\n

Ohtani\u2019s second homer ignited a rally that turned a 5-2 Yankees lead into 6-5 Dodgers advantage \u2014 another comeback victory and another painful reminder of how the Yankees fold in the World Series.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation is a little different,\u201d Ohtani said in Japanese, \u201cbut I think coming back to win is always good.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a few more mistake pitches hurt Fried, he was pulled from a 5-4 game with two on and nobody out. Both runs scored, and Fried was charged with six runs over five-plus innings \u2014 after he allowed 10 earned runs over his first 11 starts, and never more than two runs in an outing.<\/p>\n

The Yankees hit four homers \u2014 Judge, Austin Wells, Trent Grisham and Paul Goldschmidt \u2014 and still that wasn\u2019t enough for Fried.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s another concern here: The rap against Fried while he was with the Braves was that he wasn\u2019t up to the task in the postseason: He is 2-5 with an ERA of 5.10 and 66 strikeouts in 20 appearances. Friday night\u2019s game was as close to a postseason contest as Fried has pitched for the Yankees and he bombed again.<\/p>\n

He was frustrated. You could hear it his voice and see it on his face. He is now 7-1 with an ERA that climbed from 1.29 to 1.92.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a competitor,\u201d Fried said. \u201cI want to go out there and win. So the fact that we had a lead and I gave it up a couple times, it\u2019s not going to sit well with me.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve just got to be able to use it as motivation to go out next time and make sure it doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fried knows what went wrong in his first bad outing since he signed with the Yankees last winter for $212 million over eight seasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cMostly just execution,\u201d he said. \u201cLeaving balls in the middle of the plate. Not going to the locations that I wanted to.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re facing a good team with good hitters, you\u2019re going to pay for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fried said he let his teammates down by blowing leads of 1-0 and 5-2.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The Dodgers] are good players,\u201d Fried said. \u201cObviously, a big core group of them won the World Series last year and they know how to win games.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I felt like (our) guys did a great job putting up early runs, and, for the most part, I just didn\u2019t do my job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judge disagreed with the \u201cdidn\u2019t do my job\u201d line while predicting a big rebound outing when Fried makes his next start, probably Thursday against Cleveland at Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s going to be fine,\u201d Judge said. \u201cHe\u2019s been the best pitcher in the game all year, and he\u2019s going up against a great ballclub that\u2019s going to put up some great at-bats against you all night long.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe went out there and battled. You\u2019re going to have games like this, but we\u2019ve got all the confidence in the world in Max and what he\u2019s able to do. I\u2019m looking forward to him being out there in another five days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judge liked that Fried took this loss hard. That\u2019s an affirmation of how much Fried cares and how badly he wants to win every start.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why he signed here,\u201d Judge said. \u201cHe wanted to sign here to play in big games, play in big moments, play for the best team. He takes everything personal, and that\u2019s what you want out of your ace right now. We feed off that energy. I know he\u2019s going to come back ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Judge was talking about June, not October.<\/p>\n

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