Aaron Nola has thrown 14 innings without a walking a batter. But the Phillies have yet to win a game started by their 22-year-old righthander, and Nola was left with a bad feeling about one curveball he threw to Wil Myers.
"It hung," Nola said. "It just hung. He put a good swing on it."
Nola allowed four runs in seven innings of Monday's 4-3 loss to San Diego. He had nine strikeouts. Nola was hurt, Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said, by his secondary stuff. The curveball to Myers, inside but high, "wasn't a good pitch," Mackanin said.