Fried‘fine’ afteranother injuryscare

As Brian Snitker made the now-tooLAKELAND, FLA. — routine walk to the mound Saturday to check on one of his dinged-up pitchers— this one the young and hopeful starter Max Fried he was met by relative good news. — Get the headline ready: No blisters! Hallelujah! Instead of beingmet by an issue that has plagued Fried in the past — and landed himon the disabled last season — it was a more freakish than that. Something on the top of the hand, rather than anything affffffecting the grip. This time, Fried’s thumbnail cut the top side of his pinkie. No big deal. But this being spring and all ... “He was almost at the end of the rope anyway,” Snitker said. “I didn’twant himto keep not doing something, change his delivery or something like that.” So, after 1⅔ innings, once more the Braves manager pulled a pitcher a short of his intended workload. It’s getting to be a habit. Fried gave up three hits and a run over the abbreviated outing. But on March 2, players tend to measure things not so much by numbers. “The last person who wants a blister is me. The fact that it’s this, I’m completely fine with it,” Fried said. Another notable sight herewas that of Johan Camargo playing first. Add another glove to his bag — he said he now has four of themin there. The utilitarian Camargo couldn’t remember another time playing first — and sometimes that showed. “There was a play there in the game where he didn’t get over to be the cutoff man,” noted Snitker. “Instinctual plays are the toughest.”