Nathan Eovaldi will start Game 2 of the ALCS for the Texas Rangers, it was announced today. He will be going up against Framber Valdez for the Houston Astros.
The natural ordering of the rotation lined up such that Eovaldi would be expected to start Game 2. However, given that whoever the other two starters would be for the Rangers in this series are likely to be pitchers who aren’t necessarily going to go deep into the game, there was some thought that Eovaldi would be held back for Game 3 (and a possible Game 7 in Houston).