{"id":692376,"date":"2026-05-07T04:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/692376\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T04:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:30:30","slug":"nathan-eovaldi-stymied-the-yankees-for-the-second-time-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/692376\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Eovaldi stymied the Yankees for the second time in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was reason to be optimistic heading into tonight. Will Warren<\/a> has been outstanding early this season and the Yankee offense has been humming. Warren has been stingy with issuing walks and has kept the ball in the yard, while the bats have been posting crooked numbers on the regular.<\/p>\n

Conversely, there was a very good reason to be pessimistic about tonight. Nathan Eovaldi entered tonight having not allowed a Yankee run in the last 16 innings he pitched against them. The last time a Yankee touched up Eovaldi was almost a calendar year ago on May 22, 2025, when Jorbit Vivas<\/a> hit a solo home run off Eovaldi \u2013 the only run he allowed that night. Unfortunately (predictably, considering his history against us?), Eovaldi was more than up to the task of stifling the Bronx Bombers<\/p>\n

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Warren and the Yanks fell behind early. After getting a pair of quick outs in the first, Warren fell behind 3-0 to a scuffling Corey Seager<\/a>. Warren, quite rightly, didn\u2019t want to walk Seager in front of a hot Josh Jung<\/a>, so unleashed a 96-mph fastball that hit the strike zone high and tight. To Seager\u2019s credit, he turned on it, kept it fair, and deposited it in the short porch.<\/p>\n

For the Yankees, Cody Bellinger<\/a> came into tonight with a seven-game hitting streak, hitting .444 with 12 RBI in that span. He wasted no time extending it to eight games, singling off Eovaldi in the home first. Unfortunately, that ended up being an offensive highlight against Eovaldi.<\/p>\n

After a quiet second inning, Texas touched Warren up again in the third. Brandon Nimmo<\/a> drew a leadoff walk and, in the least surprising outcome imaginable, came in to score on an Ezequiel Duran<\/a> double. Warren came into the game with a 5.3 BB% (91st percentile in baseball) so it\u2019s tough to get too upset with him. But it\u2019s illustrative of a baseball truism nonetheless. Leadoff walks come around to score.<\/p>\n

Unlike the first inning, Warren couldn\u2019t contain the damage. He left what was supposed to be a back foot sweeper to Evan Carter<\/a> over the plate. Carter did not miss. His two-run shot extended the Texas lead to 4-0. After only surrendering four home runs in his first 37.2 innings, Warren allowed two in fewer than four frames tonight. Regression to the mean. Bah.<\/p>\n

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Warren walked two more Rangers in the fourth and, lo and behold, two more runs scored. A sacrifice fly and a single put the Yanks in a 6-0 hole. Warren managed to get out of the fourth but that was the end of the road in what was easily his worst start of the season. His command just wasn\u2019t there tonight, uncharacteristically walking opponents and missing badly on the pitch to Carter. Yerry De los Santos<\/a>, recently recalled to the Bronx, came on in relief to begin the fifth.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Eovaldi continued to annihilate the Yankees. After Bellinger\u2019s first inning single, no Yankees reached base except Jose Caballero, who took a curveball off the elbow, only to promptly be erased by a double play ground ball from Trent Grisham<\/a>. Finally, in the bottom of the fifth, Austin Wells<\/a> poked a single to left field for the Yanks\u2019 second knock of the night. He advanced no further, and Eovaldi was through five with only 63 pitches.<\/p>\n

The Yanks got on the board in the sixth, thanks to the prodigious power of Aaron Judge<\/a>. The Captain drove a belt-high sinker to center field for his 15th home run of the season. As Joe Girardi noted in the booth, Judge also tied Paul O\u2019Neill on the Yankee career RBI leaderboard. Judge\u2019s blast mercifully ended Eovaldi\u2019s scoreless streak against the Yankees at 21.2 innings. Please go away, Eovaldi.<\/p>\n

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De los Santos was a godsend for Aaron Boone, throwing 3.1 scoreless innings. Alas, as Michael Kay and Girardi pointed out, when a long guy throws that many innings and pitches (54), a one-way ticket back to Triple-A is the usual reward. At any rate, De los Santos\u2019 performance kept Boone from having to burn through his entire bullpen. Similarly, Ryan Yarbrough<\/a> covered the final five outs, so, despite Warren only going four, the vast majority of the bullpen got the night off.<\/p>\n

Eovaldi stayed on the mound for Texas, and kept dominating the Yankee lineup. When his night finally ended after the eighth, it meant he\u2019d thrown 15 innings of one-run ball against New York in the last week. Thank the baseball gods he\u2019s in the AL West. Jacob Latz<\/a> came on for the final three outs, snapping the Yankees\u2019 five-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

Join us tomorrow for the rubber game of this three-game set. Rangers offseason trade addition MacKenzie Gore<\/a> will face Paul Blackburn<\/a>, subbing in for an ill Ryan Weathers<\/a>. First pitch at 12:35 pm ET.<\/p>\n

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