NEW YORK (AP) — New York Yankees starting pitcher Max Fried took another step in his recovery from a bone bruise in his left elbow, throwing about 30 pitches in a two-inning simulated game Tuesday.
Fried was on the mound for about 20 minutes and used all his pitches while facing Ryan McMahon and Trent Grisham, who are slated to be activated off the injured list Friday.
“It looked great, like really good,” manager Aaron Boone said before the Yankees faced Detroit. “Stuff was good. I thought he was really sharp.”
Fried recently started throwing bullpen sessions and will face hitters again before Sunday’s game against the Minnesota Twins.
The 32-year-old left-hander has been out since May 13, when he left a start in Baltimore after three innings when he velocity noticeably dropped and he threw only 34 of 61 pitches for strikes. He also had an MRI and CT scan that were reviewed by Los Angeles Dodgers team physician Dr. Neal ElAttrache.
McMahon, who is recovering from a throat infection, faced Fried three times. He popped out and struck out in the first two at-bats before seeing three more pitches in the final at-bat when Fried’s session ended.
“All over the zone,” McMahon said. “He threw every pitched, landed the curveball and sweeper for strikes to me and the sinkers were nasty. Everything was good."
Grisham, who is recovering from a strained right hamstring, saw about 10 pitches from Fried and struck out in his first appearance while fouling off a pair of pitches.
Fried did not face Giancarlo Stanton, who is recovering from a strained right calf that has kept him out since April 24. Boone said on Monday Stanton was going to face Fried, but Tuesday said he misspoke.
Fried is 4-3 with a 3.21 ERA in 10 starts after going 19-5 with a 2.86 ERA and making the All-Star team last season, his first with the Yankees. He left Atlanta as a free agent to sign a $218 million, eight-year contract with New York in December 2024.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. passed various concussion tests after the leaving Monday’s 7-3 loss following a violent collision with right fielder Jasson Domínguez.
With the Yankees down 7-0 in the fourth inning, Hao-Yu Lee hit a high pop to shallow right field. Chisholm ran back and attempted to make the catch, but Domínguez charged in and caught the ball as his glove struck the second baseman in the face.
“Getting hit like that I felt like I got punched in the face, but other than that, I was pretty good,” Chisholm said.
Chisholm was not in the lineup Tuesday and José Caballero made his third start at second base.
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New York Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr., left, walks to the dugout after colliding with Jasson Domínguez during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Monday, June 29, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)
New York Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr., right, walks to the dugout after colliding with teammate Jasson Domínguez during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Monday, June 29, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)
New York Yankees' Jasson Domínguez, top, checks on teammate Jazz Chisholm Jr., bottom, after they collided while pursuing a ball hit by Detroit Tigers' Hao-Yu Lee during the fourth inning of a baseball game Monday, June 29, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)
OSSINING, New York (AP) — As the lights dimmed inside the chapel at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York, around 30 incarcerated men sat scattered across the pews, waiting to preview a new docuseries on the history of the nation’s criminal justice system.
Our Lady of Hope chapel was soon abuzz with discussion, as some learned new things about an American institution with which they already have a great deal of personal experience.
The four-part series, “Crime and Punishment in America,” is set to premiere Monday on PBS. It spends eight hours tracing how the justice system evolved, from the colonial period to present day, and viewers get to hear from legal scholars, formerly incarcerated people, victims’ families and corrections officers.
The U.S. maintains the world's largest incarcerated population, with nearly two million people behind bars in prisons and jails. In 2024, each state incarcerated more people per capita than most countries, according to the Prison Policy Initiative.
“What are we hoping to accomplish with this?” film director Lynn Novick said in an interview with The Associated Press. “Digging into the history and revealing it will help us to have a different conversation about what justice means in this country.”
Novick developed the series with frequent collaborator Ken Burns, an acclaimed filmmaker with numerous PBS documentaries to his name. In 2019, the two partnered on “College Behind Bars,” which followed a Bard College program to provide a liberal arts education to incarcerated people.
Sing Sing was Novick’s sixth screening for prison populations in correctional facilities: Maine, Connecticut, California and Washington state prisons, as well as New York City’s Rikers’ jail, have hosted previews of “Crime and Punishment in America.”
Sing Sing prisoners were shown a 47-minute reel from the full series.
“I hope that as people see this documentary, that they are challenged to think about what we have to do differently,” said Michael Shane Hale, 54 and from Kentucky, who has served 32 years of a 50-to-life prison sentence.
Hale said the viewing public should no longer question whether it's possible for prisoners to turn their lives around. The question, he added, should instead be “what do we do with transformed people?”
The conversation at Sing Sing was more animated than Novick had anticipated. Some of the prisoners gathered in the chapel were invigorated by news of California Gov. Gavin Newsom saying he would commute hundreds of death sentences before leaving office, which experts say would be the largest mass clemency in American history.
Several prisoners inundated a panel of speakers with concerns about what rehabilitation through incarceration looks like for their families and for victims. Others drew connections between their crimes, mental illness and economic circumstances.
“Nobody is the sum of their worst mistake, right?” said José Colon, 44 and from the Bronx, who entered prison at age 17 and has been incarcerated for nearly 28 years. “No matter where you are in life, there’s always room for growth.”
John Rizzo, another Sing Sing prisoner, asked the panel what “rehabilitation” means to society.
“When we come in here, we’re tainted,” Rizzo said later in an interview with the AP. “When we go back out into society, when is the incarcerated individual going to be acceptable again?”
Rizzo has served 16 years so far on a conviction for conspiracy and attempted murder. He said he spends his time helping peers apply for prison jobs and studying for a bachelor’s degree in behavioral science that he intends to earn while incarcerated.
Reginald Dwayne Betts, a panelist and poet who served eight years for a carjacking at 16, agreed with Rizzo. He said people seemed to focus on his past when he returned to life after prison. “It was always, ‘Can you tell me more about your crime?’” he said.
Betts has created a documentary following his life and became known for his work installing libraries in the nation’s prisons.
Daniel F. Martuscello III, the first former correction officer appointed commissioner of the New York State Department of Correction, said he agreed to screen Novick's film because he sees it as an extension of the prison’s Rehabilitation Through the Arts workshops.
“It’s our obligation, not only as commissioners, but as people running the system, lawmakers, to make sure that we’re telling that story,” Martuscello said. “Because to not do so, it takes away from that transformation, and really, it degrades public safety.”
John J. Lennon is an incarcerated Sing Sing prison journalist and a recipient of a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship, a prestigious and competitive grant to support scholars, artists and scientists for work “under the freest possible conditions.” In-prison programs, he says, are what allowed him to build a writing career after entering prison with a ninth-grade education.
He said New York, and the nation as a whole, has much more reform work to do.
“If you want accountability in America, then there has to be forgiveness on the table,” Lennon said. “There has to be mercy on the table.”
A man holds the bars at Sing Sing Correctional Facility on Friday, Nov. 6, 2026 in Ossining, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Inmates at Sing Sing Correctional Facility attend a screening and Q&A session of "Crime and Punishment in America," a new documentary on American prison systems produced by Ken Burns and directed by Lynn Novick, on Friday, Nov. 6, 2026 in Ossining, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Inmates at Sing Sing Correctional Facility attend a screening and Q&A session of "Crime and Punishment in America," a new documentary on American prison systems produced by Ken Burns and directed by Lynn Novick, on Friday, Nov. 6, 2026 in Ossining, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Director Lynn Novick, right, speaks about her new documentary, produced by Ken Burns, during a Q&A session after a screening of clips from "Crime and Punishment in America," at Sing Sing Correctional Facility on Friday, Nov. 6, 2026 in Ossining, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Inmates at Sing Sing Correctional Facility attend a screening and Q&A session of "Crime and Punishment in America," a new documentary on American prison systems produced by Ken Burns and directed by Lynn Novick, on Friday, Nov. 6, 2026 in Ossining, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
