We are all familiar with the story about Aaron Nola in September. When push came to shove, as the story goes, Nola was going to come up small when the team needed him. It seemed as though it was an annual thing, something we could expect each September. The Phillies would be on the periphery of the playoff hunt, needing Nola to produce a solid start to keep them in the conversation, and yet he’d go out of give the team a subpar start.
2021: 32 IP, 34 H, 22 R, 42/6 K/BB, 6 HR, 6.