Max Fried baffled Boston batters for eight scoreless innings, Amed Rosario tallied all four runs batted in, and the Yankees grabbed a 4-1 win over the Red Sox at Fenway Park on Wednesday night.

New York (15-9) has now won five straight games. Boston (9-15) has now lost four of the last five.

Here are the takeaways...

- Fried, who came to the mound with a three-run lead, worked around a one-out walk with a pair of strikeouts on the fastball (one looking and one swinging). The lefty didn't look too sharp to start, issuing a leadoff walk in the second and leaving a fastball up and over the plate to Jarren Duran to double off the Monster. That’s when Fried went to the offspeed, getting Caleb Durbin whiffing on a pair of good changeups, Connor Wong swinging on a change below the zone, and ex-Yank IsiahKiner-Falefa fishing on a curveball in the dirt.

Fried had an easier third, allowing only a slapped two-out single the other way to Wilyer Abreu as another cutter found too much of the plate. The lefty got dinged by Duran with one out in the fourth as a 2-2 fastball over the plate was driven off the Monster in left-center for a double. But once again, the lefty pitched his way out of danger.

Fried then put his early-inning wildness to bed; he retired the final 14 batters he faced, adding four more strikeouts in the process.

His final line: 8.0 shutout innings with just three hits and two walks against him and nine strikeouts on 100 pitches (66 strikes).

- Rosario, after swinging through a first-pitch changeup, didn't miss the next change. A hanging Ranger Suarez offering was absolutely pummeled 416 feet (108.4 mph off the bat) over the Green Monster for a two-out, three-run homer in the top of the first. He added a fourth RBI with a sac fly to left in the third before being lifted for a pinch-hitter in the sixth.

- Giancarlo Stanton ripped a changeup into the left field corner and scampered into second with a double to put two in scoring position. Stanton hit a liner off the Monster for a double with one down in the third, this one 107.4 mph off the bat, six mph faster than his first extra-base hit. He had a two-out RBI chance with a man on third in the fifth, but the Red Sox went to the bullpen and righty Zack Kelly got him to pop out on the infield. He finished 2-for-4.

- Aaron Judge ripped a single into left to start the top of the third. He also worked two walks against Suarez, who was pitching the slugger very carefully. Judge swiped his fifth bag of the season in the fifth and finished the day 1-for-2.

- Randal Grichuk singled to the left side in his first at-bat and flied out to right before being pinch-hit for in the sixth. After starting the season hitless in his first 13 at-bats, he is now 5-for-13 in his last five games.

- Paul Goldschmidt, batting leadoff against the lefty, grounded out to first after a 10-pitch at-bat to start the top of the first. He went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts as his early-season struggles continue during his inconsistent playing time; he’s now 3-for-24 (.125) at the plate.

- Cody Bellinger went down swinging on a good low-and-away fastball in the first. He finished 0-for-4.

- Jazz Chisholm Jr. popped out to left to end the first, popped out to left on the first pitch of the fourth, and went down swinging on a fastball above the zone to end the sixth against lefty Eduardo Rivera, who was making his MLB debut. He finished 0-for-4 and is now batting .173 to start the year (14-for-81).

- José Caballero went down swinging on a changeup in the dirt his first time up. He got an infield hit to start the seventh to go 1-for-3.

- Austin Wells popped up to the catcher in foul ground first at-bat, was caught looking to end the top half of the fourth, and grounded into a 3-6-4-5 double-play as Caballero made it interesting in a rundown.

- Aaron Boone made two pinch-hit decisions with the lefty starter out of the game at the top of the sixth, but neither worked out as both Ben Rice (for Rosario) and Trent Grisham (for Grichuk) went down looking. (Grisham finished 0-for-2.)

- Ryan McMahon, who took over at third base for the bottom of the sixth, made a nice play on the hot corner to end the inning with a nice backhand and throw across to end the inning. He made a better play to start the eighth, robbing a Kiner-Falefa double with a diving grab on a sizzling liner down the line. He struck out swinging in his only at-bat. McMahon's struggles at the plate continue – 6-for-48 (.125) with 20 strikeouts on the year.

- Brent Headrick allowed a one-out single before Duran snuck a single up the middle for his third hit of the night to end the Sox's scoreless run against the Yanks. After a mound visit from pitching coach Matt Blake, the big left-hander got Durbin to ground out to short to close the door.

Game MVP: Max Fried

The southpaw was sensational, dispatching a lousy-hitting Sox lineup (.643 team OPS through 24 games, tied for second worst in MLB). Fried had 20 called strikes and 18 whiffs (on 46 swings) for a 38 percent called-strike plus whiff rate. The changeup was his best of the bunch with seven whiffs on 11 swings.

Here are the takeaways...

Game MVP: Max Fried

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