For all the talk about the Yankees not having a true ace, one of their pitchers quietly is doing a pretty good impression of one.
Nathan Eovaldi entered last night on an American League- best eight-game winning streak, and had he received any run support he would have run it to nine. As it was, he and the Yankees happily took the result, a 1-0 walk-off victory over the Astros in front of 37,125 at the Stadium.
The Yankees (69-55), who pulled into a virtual tie with the idle Blue Jays in the AL East, won it in the ninth on Carlos Beltran's sacrifice fly to deep center that drove in Brett Gardner.