NEW YORK (AP) — Max Fried will come off the injured list ahead of schedule Wednesday to pitch for the New York Yankees in the second game of their day-night doubleheader against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The ace left-hander has been sidelined since May 14 because of a left elbow bone bruise and had been lined up to make a second minor league rehab start Wednesday. But after Tuesday's game was postponed because of a poor weather forecast, the Yankees announced Gerrit Cole to start the opener of Wednesday's twinbill and slated Fried for Game 2.
“That sets us up from a starting standpoint in Philadelphia and beyond,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said, looking ahead to his team's weekend series. “Max was way on board with it. I think it makes a ton of sense and we can continue to build him this way.”
A three-time All-Star, Fried is 4-3 with a 3.21 ERA in 10 starts for New York this season. He tossed three innings last Friday in a rehab outing for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre against Worcester, allowing two runs and five hits with three strikeouts and no walks. He threw 52 pitches, 32 for strikes.
The next day, Boone said Fried would make at least one more rehab start in the minors before rejoining the big league rotation.
But the Yankees' plans changed when Tuesday night's scheduled game against the Pirates was postponed in the afternoon because of a rainy forecast and set to be made up as part of New York’s second doubleheader in a four-day span.
The regularly scheduled game begins at 1:05 p.m. and the makeup at 7:05 p.m.
“He’s ready to go. He’s been ready for a while,” Boone said. “It’s just about getting him built up. So, obviously, he doesn’t have a full clip yet.”
Will Warren had been slated to start Tuesday night against fellow right-hander Bubba Chandler and the Pirates. The Yankees are off Thursday, and Warren will start Friday night's series opener at Philadelphia and be followed Saturday by Cam Schlittler.
New York split a day-night doubleheader Sunday against the Los Angeles Dodgers after a rainout Saturday night.
Chandler will pitch the nightcap Wednesday after Mitch Keller starts Game 1 for Pittsburgh. The Pirates are also off Thursday before a home series against the Chicago Cubs.
The 32-year-old Fried went 19-5 with a 2.86 ERA over 32 starts in 2025, his first season with the Yankees after leaving Atlanta as a free agent to sign a $218 million, eight-year contract with New York in December 2024.
Cole returned to the Yankees on May 22 following reconstructive elbow surgery and the doubleheader marks the first time they are in the rotation at the same time.
“We have high hopes this year,” Boone said. “Those are two of the big reasons why and hopefully we’ve got a good run in us with them right in the middle of it.”
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New York Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Friday, July 17, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
New York Yankees' Cody Bellinger, center left, and Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) celebrate after Chisholm's home run against the Pittsburgh Pirates during the first inning of a baseball game, Monday, July 20, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a church in Jordan on Friday, killing seven people and wounding 40 others, authorities said.
The shooting took place at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) south of the capital, Amman.
Footage broadcast on Jordanian state television showed two gunmen who appear to be holding pistols approaching the church and firing shots. A third man who appears to be holding a semiautomatic rifle then approaches and opens fire, and all three then run toward the church.
Video footage taken by witnesses shows broken glass and pools of blood on the floor of the church.
Dorgham Halasa, who was among the mourners inside the church, said intense gunfire erupted 15 minutes after the funeral had started, and then people started running. “It was a weird situation, and heavy gunfire,” Halasa said.
He did not see the gunmen, but said other people reported seeing four of them. The Associated Press could not independently verify the number of assailants, and Jordan’s security services did not immediately release details.
A government statement said that the attack was “carried out by unknown assailants,” but didn't say whether any gunmen were captured or killed. It said that “investigations are underway at full speed.”
Jordan declared three days of national mourning, according to the kingdom’s Petra News Agency.
Karak is home to a minority Christian population.
In 2016, gunmen ambushed police in a series of attacks in Karak, including at a Crusader castle popular with tourists, killing 10 people, including seven officers, and wounding dozens. Jordanian security forces killed those gunmen after a long standoff.
Jordan’s Health Minister Ibrahim al-Budour said two of those wounded are in critical condition.
King Abdullah II said on X that Jordan “will confront the terrorist act that targeted Karak with the harshest penalties” and offered his “deepest condolences to the families of the martyrs, and our wishes for recovery to the wounded.”
Jordan’s Prime Minister Jafar Hassan said during a security meeting in Karak on Friday evening that the attack was a result of terrorist ideology and blind extremism. He said the assailants will be punished and legal measures taken against those who seek to introduce extremism.
Condemnation of the slayings came from around the region, including from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Oman.
Ahmed al-Tayeb in Cairo, the grand imam of Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world’s foremost religious institution, offered his condolences to the families of victims in Friday’s shooting, calling it a “heinous terrorist attack.”
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein called his Jordanian counterpart and “affirmed Iraq’s solidarity with Jordan in the face of terrorism,” Hussein’s office said in a statement.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the attack during a funeral as “especially heinous,” spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. “The secretary-general also calls for all those responsible to be found and to be held to account.”
This story has been corrected to give the distance between Karak and Amman as 90 kilometers instead of 180.
Blood stains the steps and pavement outside a Greek Orthodox church hours after gunmen opened fire during a funeral in Hamoud village, in Jordan's Karak governorate, Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. (AP Photo)
The interior of a Greek Orthodox church is seen hours after gunmen opened fire during a funeral in Hamoud village, in Jordan's Karak governorate, Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. (AP Photo)
Journalists and other people stand outside a Greek Orthodox church cordoned off with crime scene tape hours after gunmen opened fire during a funeral in Hamoud village, in Jordan's Karak governorate, Friday, Oct. 23, 2026.(AP Photo)
Residents gather as soldiers and security officers block the entrance to Prince Ali Military Hospital during King Abdullah II's visit to people wounded in a shooting at a Greek Orthodox church during a funeral hours earlier, in Karak, Jordan, Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. (AP Photo)
Soldiers and security officers hold back residents outside Prince Ali Military Hospital during King Abdullah II's visit to people wounded when gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church hours earlier, in Karak, Jordan, Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. (AP Photo)
A security officer stands guard a Greek Orthodox Church where gunmen opened fire during a funeral earlier in Hamoud village, in Jordan's Karak governorate, Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. (AP Photo)
A security officer stands guard outside a Greek Orthodox Church where gunmen opened fire during a funeral earlier in Hamoud village, in Jordan's Karak governorate, Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. (AP Photo)
A man looks through a gap in a stone wall toward a Greek Orthodox church where gunmen opened fire during a funeral hours earlier in Hamoud village, in Jordan's Karak governorate, Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. (AP Photo)
