Nathan Eovaldi takes the mound for the Rangers today, and that's great news for Jose Altuve, who owns a 1.298 OPS in 30 career plate appearances against the Rangers starter. He homered in each of his two plate appearances in his last regular-season face-off with Eovaldi, and he has topped 1.5 total bases in half his games this year, as he did in one of his two matchups with Eovaldi last October. I believe we're getting a discount on this number with Eovaldi pitching well so far this year.

Dude has taken Eovaldi deep 5 times already in a limited sample size. Starting to feel himself again in this big series with the Rangers. Knows how to ambush a fastball

Altuve is starting to turn it around atop the Stros lineup. At bats look much better, Houston has to keep scoring with its pitching woes and Altuve owns Nathan Eovaldi, going 9/29 off him with 5 HRs. Home run balls were flying last night. I see more today. Altuve is also a doubles machine when he find the gaps