{"id":60052,"date":"2025-05-28T03:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T03:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/60052\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T03:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T03:47:12","slug":"texas-rangers-starter-nathan-eovaldi-exits-game-vs-blue-jays-after-two-innings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/60052\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers starter Nathan Eovaldi exits game vs. Blue Jays after two innings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">ARLINGTON \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/\">Texas Rangers<\/a> starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi exited Tuesday\u2019s 2-0 win vs. the Toronto Blue Jays at Globe Life Field after just two innings with right triceps tightness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Eovaldi was removed from the game due to precautionary reasons and the Rangers do not believe he will need to miss time because of it. The Rangers have multiple team off days built into their upcoming schedule \u2014 including on Friday and Monday \u2014 that would potentially give Eovaldi extra time to rest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said that Eovaldi will be evaluated Wednesday and that they\u2019ll push his next start back if needed, though he doesn\u2019t believe that will be necessary. Eovaldi said that he\u2019d been dealing with tightness in his triceps prior to tonight but that he\u2019d been able to manage it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cToday it just felt a lot tighter,\u201d Eovaldi said. \u201cI hate putting the bullpen in that situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rangers<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-cta-social-module__zWZy- mb-4\">Be the smartest Rangers fan. Get the latest news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">His next regularly scheduled start would be next Tuesday\u2019s series opener against the Tampa Bay Rays. Eovaldi would be on six full days of rest if he pitched. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cBelieve me, he wanted to go back out, that\u2019s who he is,\u201d Bochy said. \u201cBut at this stage of the season we\u2019re not going to risk setting him back if we need him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Eovaldi had thrown two shutout innings vs. the Blue Jays on 39 pitches before he was lifted from the game. Left-hander Jacob Latz, their long relief option, replaced him in the top of the third inning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The 35-year-old Alvin, Texas native has a 1.56 ERA in 69 1\/3 innings this season and ranks fifth among all starters leaguewide with a 2.1 WAR according to FanGraphs. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/05\/27\/as-futility-continues-clock-is-ticking-for-texas-rangers-to-figure-it-out-or-else\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As futility continues, clock is ticking for Texas Rangers to figure it out &#8230; or else<\/a><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/05\/27\/wyatt-langfords-power-speed-combination-blossoming-in-second-year-with-texas-rangers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wyatt Langford\u2019s power-speed combination blossoming in second year with Texas Rangers<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Rangers coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click or tap here to sign up for our Rangers newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON \u2014 Texas Rangers starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi exited Tuesday\u2019s 2-0 win vs. the Toronto Blue Jays at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,3417,4,394,149,185,69,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-60052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-bluejays","11":"tag-brief","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-nathan-eovaldi","14":"tag-rangers","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-texas-rangers","17":"tag-toronto","18":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","19":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114583414043146750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}