00:01Obviously the Yankees sputtering of late trying to find their way out of it and they get as big a reinforcement as you possibly can with Aaron Judge returning today. Aaron Judge is the preeminent right handed batter of his generation maybe of all time. It's not only a huge lift just numerically it's a huge lift emotionally for the Yankees. These are the throws where Judge hurt himself in Toronto. Today he'll DH he'll start throwing tomorrow in the
00:29We'll see where he can take it from there. Nathan Evaldi has been incredible for the Rangers. It's very hard to hit very hard to score runs off of is getting better with age is mixing it up more than he ever has. His 2 2 and a swing and a high fly ball center field. Lankford has a read on it and he makes the catch one away. Bouncer second base high hop for Simeon. They'll throw the first and that takes care of Rice.
00:59Here is the captain. He's back. Aaron Judge leading the American League in multiple offensive categories. How about these numbers? 12 for 34 against Evaldi with a home run of 353 batting average. Judge has come through all of his rehab with the elbow feeling good on his swings. Aaron Boone saying no concern about it affecting him as he swings. And swing and a miss. Evaldi strikes out Judge to complete a 1-2-3 first inning.
01:29His 15th double and a 2 out base runner here for Texas. Dolores Garcia. 225 batting average with 16 homers. 18th pitch of the inning coming here from Will Warren. Swing on a hit to the shortstop. Went over the legs of Simeon. Bolton takes his time. A little bit low in the flow.
01:59196 against him. And his strikeouts to walks. Belit. And this is popped up. Third base side. Long run for Smith. He goes into a slide and makes the catch. What a play. What a clever play. A long slide like he's in the backyard of the slip and slide. And timed it perfectly.
02:19Here is Volpe. Yankees trying to get a base runner against Evaldi. Volpe. A back liner that's going to make its way into left field. First base runner of the game. Volpe's going for two. And he is in there with a hustle double. Impressive. And this is out of the box. You can see he's watching and thinking right now. Wait a minute. Do I got it? Yeah. I'm going to take a chance. And yes he is in there and safe. Two out base runner. First hit for the Yankees. Yesterday the Yankees with three
02:49eight for 15 with runners in scoring position. Bouncer right side of the infield. Fellas fires it over to Evaldi. They get Grisham and the inning is over. But if you want to take the entire expansion era from 1961 on. The lowest ERAs in American League history. Evaldi's would be the fifth lowest. Well this is can't miss right here. Evaldi you just went through the numbers. Aaron Judge the best in the game. We get to watch this matchup right here. He struck him out with a splitter.
03:19The last at bat. We've seen fastball in. Now we've seen the softer curveball below the zone. The one two. Got him swaying. Once again on the splitter. What a great job of pitching. Setting up the splitter. The first strike was fastball in. Taken by Judge. The next pitch. The slower curveball at 78 miles an hour out in front. And then he goes with the splitty that looks just like the fastball. But it dips below the zone and takes five miles an hour off.
03:49Jack Peterson leads out. As Peterson rips that. Down the right field line and off the wall. Bellinger having to chase after it. And Jack Peterson starting to heat up here for Texas. A leadoff double.
04:05Third straight inning. Third straight inning. That the Rangers have had a runner on second. Nobody out. They had first and second. Nobody out. And the second didn't score. They had a runner on second. Nobody out. And the third didn't score. And that was after Josh Smith's leadoff double. So Will Warren having to go back to work right here. Grounded is short. Pulpy looked at third. Now fires the first. One down. Infield in.
04:35And there. Makes the catch. For the second out. And Peterson has to hold at third. Warren one out away from escaping again. Texas. 0 for 9 with runners in scoring position so far tonight. He got him. How about Will Warren. Gave up the leadoff double. Retires the next three. Has held the Rangers to 0 for 10 with runners in scoring position.
04:58Nathan Evaldi. Nathan Evaldi faces 2-3-4 in the Yankees order here in the top of the seventh. Nothing-nothing the score. Yankees with just one hit.
05:08There's a bouncer up the middle. Sliding stop Seager. Good throw to first. And they get Rice. More good defense tonight. Boy, this was beautiful from Seager here. Here's Aaron Judge.
05:21One swing of the bat could win this game. Got to be careful here. He won in a broken bat roller shortstop.
05:27Seager's throw. Seager's throw. Plenty of time. Two down. Great job from Evaldi against Judge so far tonight. One more out. And I would love to see this crowd explode for Nathan Evaldi and what he's doing in this game.
05:44Ballinger the hitter. Bouncer. Second base. Easy play. Simeon. A 1-2-3. Seventh inning. Evaldi is through seven. Shutout.
05:54Well, in 2023, the Rangers were looking for a big game in the middle game of the series against the Yankees. And it was a shutout from Evaldi.
06:04Evaldi looks pretty similar tonight. To be honest, you could even say he might look better tonight.
06:09Yeah, this has been special. He's faced one over the minimum. The only guy to get on Volpe with that bloop out in the left field. Third inning.
06:15There's a swing and a miss. And he strikes out Chisholm on three pitches. He's just getting better as the game goes on.
06:22You do know artists, right? Jugglers. You could say this is Picasso.
06:27Picasso's a great artist. I'd scare you that much. There's a ground ball second base.
06:32Simeon throws out Dominguez. A ninth pitch, eighth inning.
06:35Stand up. Let's go. Somebody tell this man that he's excellent at what he does.
06:42Evaldi. Eight. One hit. Shutout innings.
06:46And Williams has walked. The base is loaded.
06:50Yeah, Boone's looking antsy like he's going to make a move here.
06:53Aaron Boone's still looking back.
06:55As of now, Williams is staying in to face Tellez.
06:59But why do you have Bednar up right now if you're not going to use him in this spot?
07:05Base is loaded. One out.
07:07You would just have to think that given his recent struggles,
07:10that Williams is not pitching with the utmost of confidence right now.
07:14These two teams, both very critical games in the wild card race.
07:20One out. Base is loaded. Full count. Now they're coming to their feet.
07:23Tenth pitch of the at-bat. And it's lifted to center.
07:28It's down. Base hit.
07:30Two runs headed to the plate.
07:33And the Rangers, at long last, have the lead.
07:37And it's a 2-0 Rangers lead as Williams gives it up again.
07:42Phil Maton will try to finish this one off on the night.
07:45This one is hit sharply into right field. A base hit for McMahon.
07:49Here is Stanton pinch-hitting for Volpe as the tying run.
07:54And there's a ground ball sharply to shortstop.
07:56Seager from his knees to second one.
07:58On to first.
07:59Oh! Double play!
08:01What a turn!
08:02Seager having a great game defensively makes a huge play here.
08:09That is just the second time this year that Stanton has rolled into a double play.
08:13The Yankees are down to their final out of the night.
08:15And Grisham, the 1-2.
08:18Got him swaying!
08:20Maton puts the finishing touches on a 2-0 Rangers win over the Yankees.
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