Nathan Eovaldi stymied the Yankees for the second time in a week

There was reason to be optimistic heading into tonight. Will Warren has been outstanding early this season and the Yankee offense has been humming. Warren has been stingy with issuing walks and has kept the ball in the yard, while the bats have been posting crooked numbers on the regular.

Conversely, there was a very good reason to be pessimistic about tonight. Nathan Eovaldi entered tonight having not allowed a Yankee run in the last 16 innings he pitched against them. The last time a Yankee touched up Eovaldi was almost a calendar year ago on May 22, 2025, when Jorbit Vivas hit a solo home run off Eovaldi – the only run he allowed that night.

Unfortunately (predictably, considering his history against us? ), Eovaldi was more than up to the task of stifling the Bronx Bombers Warren and the Yanks fell behind early. After getting a pair of quick outs in the first, Warren fell behind 3-0 to a scuffling Corey Seager.

Warren, quite rightly, didn’t want to walk Seager in front of a hot Josh Jung, so unleashed a 96-mph fastball that hit the strike zone high and tight. To Seager’s credit, he turned on it, kept it fair, and deposited it in the short porch. For the Yankees, Cody Bellinger came into tonight with a seven-game hitting streak, hitting .