ARLINGTON, Texas — One of baseball's best pitchers this season isn't even listed among the league leaders, and was left off the American League All-Star team.
Nathan Eovaldi is 6-0 with a 0.47 ERA in six starts for the Texas Rangers since the beginning of July. The right-hander, coming off one-hit ball over eight innings in a 2-0 win over the New York Yankees , is 10-3 with a 1.38 ERA in 19 starts overall.
“I don’t know what else I can say about him. I’ve run out of superlatives,” Texas manager Bruce Bochy said. “This is one of the best runs I’ve seen from a pitcher. Believe me, I’ve enjoyed watching it.”
And Bochy, also a former big league catcher, has seen a lot in 28 seasons as a manager while winning 2,231 regular-season games and four World Series titles .
Eovaldi would qual