Which opposing pitcher is the greatest Yankee Killer?

Q: What is Nathan Eovaldi's career ERA against the New York Yankees?

Nathan Eovaldi has a career ERA of 2.94 against the New York Yankees.

Q: Which pitchers are considered the greatest Yankee Killers?

Notable Yankee Killers include Randy Johnson, Cliff Lee, and Luis Tiant, among others.

Q: How has Nathan Eovaldi performed against the Yankees recently?

Recently, Nathan Eovaldi has allowed only two runs in his last four starts against the Yankees, achieving a 0.63 ERA.

Q: What teams did Randy Johnson help eliminate the Yankees from the playoffs?

Randy Johnson helped eliminate the Yankees from the playoffs with the Seattle Mariners in 1995 and the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2001.

May 6, 2026; Bronx, New York, USA; Texas Rangers pitcher Nathan Eovaldi (17) delivers a pitch during the eighth inning against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images | Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images A few weeks ago upon the news of Angels franchise icon Garret Anderson passing away, John wrote a tribute to him, saluting him as one of the great Yankee Killers of recent vintage. Now today, we’re on the heels of the Yankees once again getting rolled by the man we’ve taken to calling “an old frenemy,” Nathan Eovaldi. The Yanks have lost just twice in the last nine games, and both times were at Eovaldi’s hands. He’s pretty much always pitched well in such situtations, with a 2.94 career ERA in 140.2 innings against New York, and he’s been especially good of late. Since the start of 2025, he’s allowed a grand total of two runs in four starts across a span of 29 innings, a minuscule 0.63 ERA. Goodness. With Eovaldi’s excellence in mind, who do you think is the best Yankees Killer on the mound? If you need a refresher, there are some good names to consider. Hall of Fame southpaw Randy Johnson was brutal for just about everyone to deal with, and he helped two separate teams send the Yankees home in October around a time when that wasn’t happening very often — first with the 1995 Mariners, *just* before the dynasty really got humming and then with the 2001 , who effectively ended the championship run. He even pitched in relief during the win-or-go-home elimination games on occasions! There’s also Luis Tiant, Dave Stieb, Curt Schilling, , Roy Halladay, , , , , and of course the originally-named “Yankee Killer,” midcentury All-Star . Knuckleballing Hall of Fame swingman Hoyt Wilhelm also had a 1.98 ERA in 209.1 career innings against New York around the same time as Lary, and he also threw what still stands as the last complete-game no-hitter against the Yankees back in 1958. If you want obscure and random, I remember the having a soft-tosser named Frank Castillo who absolutely gave the Yankees fits in the early 2000s. More recently, and have been tougher customers against the Yanks than most other teams. So take your pick! I think Johnson probably has too much of a resume to ignore, but if we’re talking non-Hall of Famers, boy was it never, ever fun to face Cliff Lee. And like Johnson, he made the Yanks look awful in postseason play pretty much he got a chance. It’s not surprising that the Yankees’ front office wanted him so much, nearly trading for him in 2010 and falling short in the 2011 free agent sweepstakes. If you prefer to be optimistic (in a way) though, maybe it would’ve just turned out like Johnson’s own up-and-down, abbreviated Yankees career. Today on the site, Peter will focus in on an at-bat from ’s five-out save on May 5th for his Sequence of the Week feature, Madison will have the Rivalry Roundup, and Jonathan’s Yankees Birthday post discusses Tom Zachary, who won a World Series in pinstripes in 1928 but is most famous for something he did before ever joining the Yankees: surrendering Babe Ruth’s then-record 60th homer of the legendary 1927 campaign. Later, Estevão will ponder the extremely middling American League landscape, and after the matinee, Jeremy will pay his respects to the late John Sterling with a tribute from the perspective of an aspiring broadcaster in his own right.