FORT MYERS, Fla. — Rooting for Nate Eovaldi should come easy to Red Sox fans.
Depend on him as a linchpin of the starting rotation? That’s a little more complicated, for it requires faith that is uncertain to be rewarded.
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Eovaldi, the 30-year-old righthander who continued his sparkling start to the spring with three shutout innings against the Blue Jays Saturday, secured his permanent spot in Red Sox lore in October 2018. I’ll provide the synopsis even though you know it by heart and probably have the World Series DVD as confirmation.
In Game 3 of the World Series, Eovaldi — who already had endured two Tommy John surgeries in his career and had pitched in the first two games of the series — threw 97 pitches over six innings of relief work in an 18-inning epic.