Is Aaron Nola back?
After failing to get past the sixth inning in four straight starts, Nola has gone 7.0 innings in each of his last two outings, including a one hit, nine strikeouts, zero earned run gem of a performance yesterday against the Cardinals.
"He went into yesterday's game, he threw his four-seam fastball 28.7-percent of the time," Phillies analyst Ben Davis told the 94WIP Morning Show on Monday. "Yesterday he threw it 51-percent of the time. So it was almost double and he was phenomenal. It was located well and that set up his breaking stuff, made it that much better. He got so many strikeouts with the fastball.
"He was anywhere from 92 to 94 [miles per hour] throughout the course of the game. It was location. It's like real estate, Jon. Location, location, location!"
The 30-year-old Nola has been one of the Phillies' most reliable pitchers and biggest innings eaters over the past few years, but is just 12-8 with a 4.30 ERA in 2023.
The hope is he is turning things around right before another playoff push for the Phils, but the fans are split on if he actually will be able to do that.
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