BOSTON (AP) — Max Fried allowed three hits over eight scoreless innings, and the New York Yankees extended their winning streak to a season-high five with a 4-1 win over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday night.
Amed Rosario hit a three-run, first-inning homer and had four RBIs for the Yankees.
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Boston Red Sox pitcher Ranger Suarez delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Fenway Park, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
New York Yankees pitcher Max Fried, left, congratulates catcher Austin Wells after completing the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
New York Yankees' Amed Rosario (14) is congratulated by Aaron Judge after Rosario's three run home run in the first inning off Boston Red Sox pitcher Ranger Suarez during a baseball game at Fenway Park, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
New York Yankees' Amed Rosario celebrates after his three run home run in the first inning off Boston Red Sox pitcher Ranger Suarez during a baseball game at Fenway Park, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
New York Yankees pitcher Max Fried delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Fried (3-1) struck out nine and walked two, and the Yankees came within one out of third straight shutout victory for the first time since 1962.
After Fried walked two batters in the first two innings, he listened to pitching coach Matt Blake's suggestion that he pitch exclusively from the stretch.
“The windup is something I've always been really comfortable with and I really like,” Fried aid. "For whatever reason this year I've walked a ton of guys in the windup. I haven't walked anyone from the stretch, so when you look at the numbers like that ... I just said: ‘You know what, you've got to suck up your pride,' and just said: `Whatever's working.'''
Jarren Duran had an RBI single off Brent Headrick with two outs in the ninth for his third hit, ending Boston’s 29-inning scoreless streak against the Yankees dating to last year’s AL Wild Card Series. Caleb Durbin then grounded out.
Boston has scored two runs or fewer in six of its last eight games, losing five.
Ranger Suarez (1-2) gave up four runs and five hits in 4 2/3 innings.
Coming off a 4-0 victory in the series opener Tuesday, Rosario hit a three-run homer in the first when he drove a changeup over the Green Monster.
Suarez came in with a 14-inning scoreless streak and fresh off his best start this season when he went eight shutout innings against Detroit.
Rosario had a sacrifice fly in the third.
Boston’s Roman Anthony was sidelined with back tightness that manager Alex Cora said started Tuesday night.
Red Sox 22-year-old lefty Eduardo Rivera made his major league debut and struck out his first batter, Jazz Chisholm Jr., swinging past a 96.9 mph fastball.
Yankees RHP Cam Schlittler (2-1, 1.95 ERA) is slated to start the series finale Thursday.
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Boston Red Sox pitcher Ranger Suarez delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Fenway Park, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
New York Yankees pitcher Max Fried, left, congratulates catcher Austin Wells after completing the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
New York Yankees' Amed Rosario (14) is congratulated by Aaron Judge after Rosario's three run home run in the first inning off Boston Red Sox pitcher Ranger Suarez during a baseball game at Fenway Park, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
New York Yankees' Amed Rosario celebrates after his three run home run in the first inning off Boston Red Sox pitcher Ranger Suarez during a baseball game at Fenway Park, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
New York Yankees pitcher Max Fried delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
INSTITUTE, W.Va. (AP) — A chemical leak at a West Virginia silver recovery business on Wednesday killed two people and sent about 30 others to hospitals, including one in serious condition, authorities said.
The leak occurred at the Catalyst Refiners plant in Institute as workers were preparing to shut down at least part of the facility, Kanawha County Commission Emergency Management Director C.W. Sigman said.
A chemical gas reaction occurred at the plant involving nitric acid and another substance, Sigman said at a news briefing. He added that there was "a violent reaction of the chemicals and it instantaneously overreacted.”
“Starting or ending a chemical reaction are the most dangerous times,” Sigman said.
The chemical reaction that was believed to have occurred during a cleaning process produced toxic hydrogen sulfide, Kanawha County Commission President Ben Salango said.
Among the injured were seven ambulance workers responding to the leak, officials said.
“We know that the first responders, they always run to the fire. They put themselves in harm’s way,” Gov. Patrick Morrisey said at an evening news conference. “We’re very grateful to these brave men and women and what they do. And they’re in our prayers, and we’re monitoring the recovery of those transported to our local hospitals.”
Other people were taken to the hospitals in private cars or even in one case a garbage truck, Sigman said.
Morrisey said one person was in serious condition.
Vandalia Health Charleston Area Medical Center, one of several hospitals in the area, was treating multiple patients, some brought by ambulance, while members of the community were arriving Wednesday afternoon asking to be checked, hospital spokesman Dale Witte said.
Witte said patients were experiencing respiratory symptoms including cough, shortness of breath, sore throat and itchy eyes. They were being evaluated in the emergency room.
WVU Medicine Thomas Memorial Hospital in South Charleston said in a statement it has cared for a dozen patients, including eight who arrived by personal vehicle and were not at the scene but were in the area at the time. It said those injuries were not considered life-threatening.
A shelter-in-place order was issued for the surrounding area and lifted more than five hours later. Officials said all the deaths occurred on the plant site.
“You had to get really close to the facility to smell it,” Sigman said.
The leak required a large-scale decontamination operation in which people had to remove their clothes and be sprayed down, authorities said.
Morrisey said it's believed the local air quality and water supply were unaffected.
Catalyst Refiners works to remove silver from what remains of chemical processes. Ames Goldsmith Corp., the owner of Catalyst Refiners, said it is saddened by the deaths and its thoughts were with all those impacted and their families.
“This is an unfathomably difficult time,” company President Frank Barber said in a statement released at the briefing. “Our thoughts and prayers are with our colleagues and their families.”
Ames Goldsmith promised to work with local, state and federal officials as they investigate the leak. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has opened an investigation into what happened, a spokesperson said, adding that the agency has six months to complete its examination.
Silver is in a number of items ranging from circuit boards and other electronics, photographic and X-Ray films and jewelry. Nitric acid is used to dissolve materials, leaving behind silver nitrate that can be processed to recover pure silver. Recovery businesses can also crush or sandblast items with silver and use magnets or differences in density to sort out the precious metal.
Sigman said Ames Goldsmith recovers silver from the various plants at the Institute complex "and they'll use it again. When they vacuum their carpets in their office, they recover so many thousands of dollars’ worth of silver out of it just vacuuming their carpets.”
The plant is located near Institute, a community about 10 miles (16 kilometers) west of Charleston, the state capital. The plant is in a region known as West Virginia’s “chemical valley,” although many plants that lined the area along the Kanawha River and produced hazardous materials have closed or changed ownership in the past several decades.
Associated Press writers Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina, Gary D. Robertson in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Kristin M. Hall in Nashville, Tennessee,.contributed to this report.
Following a chemical spill in the region, a decontamination tent is shown outside of WVU Medicine Thomas Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in South Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/John Raby)
Kanawha County Commission Emergency Management Director C.W. Sigman speaks at a news conference Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/John Raby)
Kanawha County Commission Emergency Management Director C.W. Sigman speaks at a news conference Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/John Raby)
Police block a road near a chemical plant where a leak occurred Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Institute, W.Va. (AP Photo/John Raby)
