Final: Phillies 7, Brewers 4
The Philadelphia Phillies only got three innings from Aaron Nola Monday, surrendered five hits to Lorenzo Cain and got themselves in multiple two-run deficits. And yet, Monday may have turned out to be their best win of the 2019 season thus far,
Throughout the course of his young career, the book on Aaron Nola has been that if you’re going to get to him, you need to do so in the first inning. The Brewers did that Monday, with reigning National League MVP Christian Yelich following up a leadoff double from Cain by plating Cain with a double of his own:
If the rain was trying to delay any @ChristianYelich RBI doubles, it has failed.