Rangers and Yankees Face Off in Heart-Stopping Showdown: Who Will Triumph?

I had a play in this same matchup yesterday. I took the Rangers to win through five innings, but they ended up tied after five. That’s actually fine as it was a push, but this was the reason I took them for five innings instead of the whole game. The Yankees are the better team, but the pitcher was better for the Rangers. Today we have a similar situation and I’m going to try and get a win instead of a push as the Rangers take on the Yankees to close out the series.

The Rangers have now lost three straight games and are at just .500 for the season. I mentioned this yesterday, but the team needs to figure things out sooner rather than later. The club is seven games under .500 on the road this season. Championship teams, even playoff teams, aren’t that bad on the road regularly. If they find a way to get that to improve, they should be in the battle later this season for the divisional crown. The biggest problem seems to be their offense. For the season, they are only hitting .229 and have scored 100 fewer runs than the Yankees. The Yankees also have played two fewer games than the Rangers. The pitching hasn’t been the issue, as demonstrated by Jacob deGrom yesterday. Today should be good too with Nathan Eovadli on the bump. Eovaldi has been very good for the Rangers since coming over. This season, he has been as good as any pitcher in the league, going 4-2 with a 1.61 ERA, and a 0.77 WHIP. Yankees hitters have gotten the best of him, specifically Aaron Judge and DJ LeMahieu, who are a combined 30-for-88 against him. 

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