Even with a returning Aaron Judge, the Yankees' offense was dominated by Nathan Eovaldi and Devin Williams allowed the winning run as New York fell 2-0 to the Rangers on Tuesday night.
The Yankees mustered just two hits and did not have a walk as they have now lost five games in a row.
Here are the takeaways….
-Judge returned after spending 10 days on the IL with a forearm strain but he didn't look like himself at the plate, and that was in large part due to. Eovaldi got the slugger to strike out on four pitches with the splitter down in the zone, getting Judge swinging. Eovaldi got Judge swinging on a low splitter again in the fourth.
Judge's other at-bats include a groundout on a fastball running in on the hands and finished 0-for-3 with two strikeouts.
–Will Warren had to grind on Tuesday. He allowed a runner to get into scoring position in his first four innings with walks attributed to his inefficiency. He worked in and out of trouble, especially in the second when he walked the first two batters. He also escaped the third after he allowed a leadoff double. A Joc Pederson leadoff double in the fourth was also squandered by the Rangers as Texas was a futile 0-for-10 with RISP through four innings.
Warren would gut through five scoreless innings, tossing 98 pitches (52 strikes), allowing three hits, walking three batters and striking out five batters.
-The Yankees bullpen also kept the Rangers in check. Camilo Doval was first out of the pen and after allowing back-to-back singles to start the sixth, he worked out of trouble. Luke Weaver allowed a two-out double in the seventh but struck out Corey Seager to end the threat.
Devin Williams, less than 24 hours after giving up the game-tying homer, came out for the eighth. Adolis Garcia hit a one-out double off the top of Jasson Dominguez's glove to set the Rangers up. Pederson and Wyatt Langford walked to load the bases for Rowdy Tellez. The left-handed slugger dumped a two-run single into center field after a 10-pitch at-bat to give the Rangers a 2-0 lead. A returning Mark Leiter Jr. got the final out of the eighth.
The Tellez hit was the only one Texas had with RISP and they finished 1-for-16 with 10 left on base.
Williams has allowed 26 runs this season. He allowed just 26 runs from 2022-24.
-In the ninth, Ryan McMahon picked up the team's second hit — the first Yankee hit since an Anthony Volpe double in the third inning. He was erased by a Giancarlo Stanton double-play. The slugger pinch-hit for Volpe before Trent Grisham struck out to end the game.
Game MVP: Nathan Eovaldi
Eovaldi continued his dominance of his former team, and gave his team a chance to win despite Texas' poor hitting.
What's next
The Yankees and Rangers complete their three-game series on Wednesday afternoon. First pitch is set for 2:35 p.m.
Carlos Rodon (11-7, 3.34 ERA) is on the mound with the Rangers sending Jack Leiter (7-6, 4.10 ERA) to the bump.
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