There are all sorts of puns you can use as a headline if your favorite ballclub loses to the Colorado Rockies. “Rocky Mountain Low”. “A Rocky start”. “On the Rocks”. So on and so forth. Aaron Nola took the mound in the hopes of obviating the need to use any of those.
Nola day began with by sending the top of the Rockies lineup down in order (foul pop, strikeout, flyout). Rockies starter Cal Quantrill couldn’t replicate the feat, although he didn’t allow much traffic: The Phillies put Bryce Harper on 1st with a 2-out walk, but JT Realmuto grounded into into a putout (aided by an excellent throw from Rockies’ shortstop Ezequiel Tovar) to end the scoreless 1st.