Nathan Eovaldi cooled off the New York Yankees for the second time in eight days, and the Texas Rangers got early home runs from Corey Seager and Evan Carter in a 6-1 victory Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Aaron Judge hit his major league-high 15th homer for the Yankees, who had won five straight games and 15 of 17. But right-hander Will Warren (4-1) was tagged for six runs and seven hits while throwing 90 pitches over four innings, a rare clunker for a New York rotation that began the day leading the majors with a 2.77 ERA.<\/p>\n
Eovaldi, on the other hand, struck out a season-best eight and walked none in eight efficient innings, firing 72 of his 101 pitches for strikes.<\/p>\n
Ezequiel Duran, a one-time Yankees farmhand, drove in two runs with a double and a sacrifice fly as Texas won for the third time in nine games. The 36-year-old Eovaldi (4-4) allowed three hits against his former team after tossing seven innings of four-hit ball in a 3-0 win over New York on April 29 at home.<\/p>\n
Each splendid outing snapped a three-game slide for Texas. In between, the Yankees scored 46 runs while going 5-0 against the Orioles and Rangers.<\/p>\n
New York had won eight in a row at home.<\/p>\n
Eovaldi became the first Rangers pitcher to last longer than seven innings this year and improved to 5-2 with a 2.22 ERA in his last 11 starts against the Yankees since April 8, 2022.<\/p>\n
Seager homered to the short porch in right field on a 3-0 fastball in the first. Brandon Nimmo drew an eight-pitch walk leading off the third and scored from first base on Duran’s double. With two outs, Carter sent a two-run drive off the facing of the second deck in right.<\/p>\n
Jake Burger’s leadoff single and consecutive one-out walks by Warren led to Duran’s bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the fourth. Seager made it 6-0 with an RBI single.<\/p>\n
Warren struck out seven and walked three. It was the first time in eight starts this season he permitted more than two earned runs.<\/p>\n
Texas and New York succeeded on their first seven ABS challenges to calls by plate umpire Quinn Wolcott, then lost their final two.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
LHP MacKenzie Gore (2-2, 4.67 ERA) pitches the series finale Thursday afternoon for Texas. RHP Paul Blackburn (1-1, 3.21) makes his first start for the Yankees after 17 relief appearances since they signed him in August 2025. LHP Ryan Weathers (2-2, 3.03) was pushed back following an illness this week.<\/p>\n