Max Fried avoided some very unlucky defense during Opening Day. Fried gave up one run in the second inning when Orlando Arcia and Austin Riley had two plays evade them. He couldn’t avoid injury in the fourth inning, however.
Dominic Smith sent a ground ball to Matt Olson and Fried covered. Max made the play with no issue. However, he walked back to the mound reaching for his hamstring. The training staff was alerted and had a warmup pitch. After that, he wanted nothing to do with returning to the game and handed the ball away.
Max Fried will exit today's game with an apparent leg injury.