The Yankees completed a three-game sweep of the Texas Rangers, winning Thursday’s matinee by a score of 1-0.

Here are the key takeaways…

-Carlos Rodon against Nathan Eovaldi turned out to be one heck of a pitchers’ duel. Rodon came into Thursday’s start on a heater, pitching to a 1.59 ERA over his last seven starts. Eovaldi, meanwhile, has been outstanding all season, coming into the game with a miniscule 1.61 season ERA.

Eovaldi pitched around some traffic on the bases in the early innings, including getting out of a second-and-third, two-out jam in the bottom of the second, when Trent Grisham grounded out to end the threat.

Meanwhile, Rodon got into a groove in the middle innings, striking out the side in the fifth to give him six punchouts on the day, up to that point. In the sixth, Wyatt Langford walked, stole second, and advanced to third on a wild pitch, but Rodon hunkered down and struck out Jake Burger to get out of the inning.

Rodon’s afternoon ended there, as he turned in 6.0 sparkling innings, allowing just two hits while striking out eight and walking two on 105 pitches. With this scoreless appearance, he lowered his season ERA to 2.88.

-The Yankees finally broke the scoreless tie in the bottom of the fifth, when Jorbit Vivas lined his first career home run over the wall in right to put the Bombers up 1-0.

Eovaldi went 6.0 innings of one-run ball, allowing five hits while striking out six and walking one.

-Things got a little dicey for Mark Leiter Jr. in the seventh, as Marcus Semien singled and moved to second on a wild pitch. After a Joc Pederson pinch-hit, infield single, the Rangers had the tying run at third and the go-ahead run at second. But Leiter was able to strike out Josh Smith swinging to escape the inning.

-Devin Williams needed just 11 pitches to toss a one-two-three eighth inning, striking out one hitter in the process. Williams has now gone seven straight outings without allowing a run, striking out 10 hitters over 6.1 innings while allowing just two hits.

Luke Weaver, who pitched in all three games against Texas, closed things out in the ninth without a hitch, picking up his seventh save of the season.

-Cody Bellinger went 0-for-4 with a couple of strikeouts, ending his 15-game hitting streak.

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