Eovaldi’s strong start latest for rolling rotation

NEW YORK — Whether it’s luck, good timing or things finally starting click, perhaps the most pivotal stretch of the Yankees’ season thus far just coincided with perhaps the team’s best string of pitching performances.

The Yankees won six of their last eight contests to end a 10-game homestand, capping the stretch with Sunday’s 5-2 victory over the Giants. Over those eight games, the staff has allowed fewer than two runs per game (13 total), 10 of which counted against the starters.

In the opinion of Nathan Eovaldi, Sunday’s starter who allowed two runs on seven hits in 6 2/3 innings, this is a product of the rallying effect of team sports. One player’s success, in this case Masahiro Tanaka’s three-hit gem last Sunday versus Boston, catalyzes the next player to succeed. And when that next player succeeds, everything keeps flowing from there.

“I feel like we just feed off of each other,” Eovaldi said. “I feel like if the team is struggling and we have somebody go out and give us a nice 7, 8 or 9 innings, enough where we can get the bullpen in there and have a shutout performance, it’s going to turn everybody around. I feel like everybody feeds off of it. It …

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