Everybody’s anxious to see Aaron Nola return to form, and with a heater touching the mid-90s and a diving curve, he looked like today could be the day. The Phillies had a healthy, if a bit meandering, Nola on the mound with a rested bullpen behind him following Nick Pivetta’s complete game on Saturday. But those full counts kept creeping in, and Nola was offering more long at-bats than he should have been. In the second, the Reds plunked a couple of hits off of him and squeezed out an early 1-0 lead.
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