ARLINGTON — The Texas Rangers have played in front of the two largest crowds for a baseball game in Globe Life Field history this season. The record, set...
in that April win vs. the Yankees, and was one-third of Texas’ offseason pitching shopping spree — pitched seven shutout innings, induced more double plays than he allowed hits and equalized arguably the biggest series in this stadium’s history in a 5-2 win over Houston.“I think you have to look at the man himself,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said. “He’s just a tough competitor. He’s been through a lot of battles, not just during the season, but postseason.
Point being: it was the kind of moment for which you’d want a guy such as Eovaldi — who once pitched eight innings of one-run ball in a 2018 World Series win against the Los Angeles Dodgers — on the mound. But, on Saturday, Eovaldi’s four-seamer ran 96.1 mph on average — a slight tick upward from his season average — and topped out at 99.1 mph.“I felt a lot better,” Eovaldi said. “In between starts, I worked on a few things mechanical, just trying to shorten up my arm path. I felt like I was getting longer and longer. I felt like it helped out today.”
The Rangers peppered Houston starter Hunter Brown with 10 hits in four innings, then scored another two off of the Astros’ bullpen in the seventh and eighth.reinforced their titles: second baseman Marcus Semien went 3 for 4 with an RBI and a stolen base, shortstop Corey Seager went 2 for 4 with a RBI, Heim went 3 for 4 with two doubles and third baseman Josh Jung delivered an RBI double in the seventh inning to extend the Rangers’ lead to 4-0.
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