When the Rangers have an off day, as they did Thursday, Bochy typically gives a starter an extra day of rest but opted to have Eovaldi pitch on normal rest. Rotowire Eovaldi said Saturday that a 'mechanical issue' was the root cause in a decrease in velocity during his last start, Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News reports.
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I felt fine." Rangers manager Bruce Bochy doesn't appear to be worried, as he moved up Eovaldi's next start from Monday (against Detroit) to Sunday's series finale against the Yankees. The veteran right-hander is 9-3 with a 2.82 ERA. ARLINGTON, Texas Nate Eovaldi pitched a three-hitter for his first big league nine-inning shutout, Ezequiel Duran hit a two-run homer in the fifth and the Texas Rangers beat the listless.
If I learned anything from last year, it's that even if velocity wasn't there, I can still go out and compete without my mid-90s fastball. Eovaldi, an All-Star in 2021 with the Boston Red Sox, has stepped up as the ace of the Texas staff in the absence of Jacob deGrom. "But I'm like, OK, I've got four different pitches. Eovaldi’s teammates were so moved by his Game 3 performance that Alex Cora had a line of pitchers outside his office the next day, begging him to let them pitch. "I'm aware that my velocity was down ," Eovaldi said Saturday.
With the cutter back in the repertoire and a swing-and-miss curveball added to it. Eovaldi leads MLB with 112 1/3 innings pitched, the most innings by a Rangers starter in his first 17 starts of a season since Mike Minor had 112 2/3 in 2019. Matt Shoemaker, Jeff Samardzija, Nathan Eovaldi, Masahiro Tanaka. So for example, he’s given up 5 barrels on 324 pitches of his 4-seam fastball in the last 2 months which equates to about 1.54 of the time. The right-hander averaged 93.8 mph, his lowest of the season and second lowest since the beginning of 2022. An interesting wrinkle in his pitch mix is that Eovaldi continued to. A split-finger fastball or splitter is an off-speed pitch in baseball that looks to the. Nathan Eovaldi vs Previous Game 6/30/23 8:05 PM vs Houston Astros: Houston Astros career statistics vs. Nate Eovaldi’s pitch data for the last two months. Eovaldi said Saturday that a "mechanical issue" was the root cause in a decrease in velocity during his last start, Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News reports.Įovaldi struggled over six innings against the White Sox last Tuesday, and his dip in fastball velocity prompted speculation.
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