Four collective starts ago, Pete Mackanin and Bob McClure sat down Jerad Eickhoff and Aaron Nola for a little talk. We don’t know the details of the exchange, only that the points that were relayed were about how the two young Phillies starters had better reach something closer to the expectations around them in their next few starts, or... they would incur some form of baseball justice.
In Nola’s first start after the chat, he went eight innings against the Braves. In his next start, he threw a pitch that blew a game and pissed off Pete Mackanin.