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Efficient Eovaldi brings the heat vs. Red Sox
- Updated: May 7, 2016
NEW YORK — By his estimation, Nathan Eovaldi pitches his best when he is able to locate his fastball.
In the Yankees’ 8-2 win Saturday afternoon over the Red Sox, the flamethrower proved his point.
Eovaldi allowed just six hits and two runs over eight stellar innings, striking out six and walking none, needing just 107 pitches to do so. Eovaldi was efficient with those pitches, too, throwing 72 percent of them for strikes. Sixty-five of the pitches he threw were fastballs, and he located 47 of those for strikes and topped 100 mph five times.
The right-hander maintained that his success stemmed from a logical connection: When his mechanics feel good, he’s able to locate his fastball better. When he locates his fastball better, he throws fewer pitches out of the zone. And fewer pitches out of the zone equal fewer pitches per out, especially when your stuff is as electric as Eovaldi’s was Saturday.
“I thought the biggest key for me today was just locating the fastball,” he …
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