ANAHEIM — Nathan Eovaldi, on multiple occasions through the season’s first month, has said that he hopes to pick up his teammates — the bats, the defense, the...
) night off for Texas’ bullpen, which had either blown a lead or turned a tied game into a deficit in the seventh inning or later six times in the team’s previous 13 games. That includes Friday night’s series opener in which Rangers had led 4-0 through seven-and-a-half-innings, but coughed up one run in the eighth, three in the ninth and a walk-off run in the 10th.
“He gave us what we needed,” Bochy said. “[It] allowed us to rest some guys, give Yerry some work. I think it helps settle guys down. You get those close games, and you have some tough losses that go with them, it’s good to have the guys relaxed.”Eovaldi gave up first-inning singles to Mike Trout and Taylor Ward, but stranded the former at third base with an inning-ending flyout from Brandon Drury.
“I think the work speaks for itself,” said Rangers catcher Jonah Heim, who also caught Eovaldi’s complete game shutout vs. the Yankees. “He’s got all his pitches working for him.”and 2 runs scored, drove in the game’s first run with a single in the fourth inning that scored Adolis Garcia. After a Leody Taveras single, Travis Jankowski drove in Heim to make it 2-0. A Marcus Semien infield single scored Taveras to make it 3-0.
“He was tough,” Bochy said of Detmers. “I knew we had our hands full, but we had the right guy [Eovaldi] out there. The way you beat those guys is have your guy go out there and put up zeroes. You know what, we had some good, long at bats [in the fourth], and [Detmer’s] pitch count was catching up with him a little bit. Had a lot of deep at bats, full counts, just grinding.”
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