HOUSTON -- Nathan Eovaldi is only the second-best pitcher ever who can throw 100 mph and hails from Alvin, Texas.
That's not an insult.
The other one is Nolan Ryan.
Alvin is a town of 26,000, located 30 miles south of Houston. A local highway is named, appropriately enough, the Nolan Ryan Expressway. Eovaldi said the local McDonald's even had some Nolan Ryan baseball bats and a picture of Ryan fighting Robin Ventura.