When Nathan Eovaldi takes the mound, you’re pretty much always going to get good length out of him.

However, much to the surprise of everyone, today was not one of those days as Eovaldi was removed from tonight’s game after just two innings of work for precautionary reasons with tricep tightness.

Needing to cover a lot of ground in what turned out to be a low-scoring game, the Rangers bullpen had a daunting task.

Despite the tall mountain ahead of them, the Rangers bullpen stepped up, providing seven shutout innings in a 2-0 Texas win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night at Globe Life Field.

Tonight marks the fifth time in franchise history that the club has used six or more relievers in a shutout victory.

Jacob Latz, with perhaps the most pressure on him, came in for Eovaldi in the 3rd inning and was lights out firing 3 scoreless innings to set the tone of the rest of the night.

“He was bussin’, wasn’t he? Rangers manager Bruce Bochy joked after the game. “What a job he did to come in and give us all we needed, it’s been a while since he’s gone that long, but terrific job to keep them there. “They’re [Toronto] a terrific offensive team, and he’s been throwing the ball well lately, but they’ve been short stints, but he gave us the length we needed there”.

After Latz, it was leverage arms Shawn Armstrong, Hoby Milner, Luke Jackson, and eventually Robert Garcia who earned the save, capping four more scoreless innings from the pen.

“All of them [bullpen] did a great job of picking each other up and got out of some jams. Milner comes in and gets a big out, all of them did something there, terrific job by this bullpen to win this ballgame”.

It wasn’t until the 8th inning that the Rangers got on the scoreboard as Josh Jung flipped a two-out RBI single into center field, which proved to be the game winner.

“Huge hit, nice job by him with two strikes,” Bochy said. “We needed it, it’s been a while since we’ve had one like that”.

Texas got a big insurance run during the very next AB as Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk attempted to pick Wyatt Langford off third base but fired the ball into left field, allowing him to trot home.