Gray and Nola’s Secret Weapons: What Hitters Won’t See Coming This Season

The Phillies are not playing their best ball, but they still have a winning record with a 24-17 mark to this point in the season. At home, the team has had most of their success, going 13-7 to this point in the year. Over the past five games, the team has gone 3-2, and most of their games have been rather low scoring. Only one of the five games has gone over an 8.5 total. The Phillies offense is hitting .257 for the season and has 193 runs which is basically the same as the Cardinals. Even the pitching staff is similar. However, their starter today, Aaron Nola, is struggling quite a bit. Nola is 1-6 for the year with a 4.89 ERA and a 1.35 WHIP. Nola has allowed at least four earned runs in four of his eight starts. He did face the Cardinals once this season and allowed two runs in five innings. In that span, he allowed five hits and four walks as well. Cardinals hitters aren’t great against Nola though as they are hitting just .190 against him. 

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