Nathan Eovaldi is making a habit of cooling off the New York Yankees. For the second time in just eight days, the Texas Rangers' veteran right-hander shut down baseball's hottest team, leading his squad to a 6-1 victory Wednesday night that snapped a three-game slide.

Eovaldi was masterful, striking out eight and walking none over eight efficient innings. He threw 72 of his 101 pitches for strikes, allowing just three hits against his former team. It was a near carbon copy of his April 29 outing, when he tossed seven innings of four-hit ball in a 3-0 win—each performance halting a three-game Rangers losing streak.

The Yankees came in riding high, winners of five straight and 15 of their last 17. Aaron Judge did his part, launching his major league-leading 15th home run of the season. But New York's rotation, which entered the day with the best ERA in baseball at 2.77, finally hit a rough patch. Right-hander Will Warren (4-1) was tagged for six runs and seven hits over four innings, his first start this season allowing more than two earned runs.

Texas jumped on Warren early. Corey Seager greeted him with a first-inning homer to the short porch in right field on a 3-0 fastball. The Rangers kept the pressure on in the third when Brandon Nimmo drew an eight-pitch walk and scored from first on Ezequiel Duran's double. Two batters later, Evan Carter crushed a two-run shot off the facing of the second deck in right to make it 4-0.

Duran, a former Yankees farmhand, added a sacrifice fly in the fourth, and Seager capped the scoring with an RBI single. The Rangers' offense was more than enough for Eovaldi, who improved to 5-2 in eight starts against New York since joining Texas in 2023. He also became the first Rangers pitcher to last more than seven innings this season.

For the Yankees, the loss was a rare stumble in what has been a dominant stretch. But with Judge swinging the hottest bat in baseball and a rotation that has been elite all year, expect them to bounce back quickly. As for Texas, Eovaldi continues to be the stopper they need—and the Yankees' worst nightmare.