Aaron Nola, Am I Right?

What a breath of fresh air Phillies fans, huh? How’d a dominant performance and not being worried for 9 innings feel? Pretty good, right?

 

It’s been a while since us as fans have been able to sit back and enjoy a genuinely good game of baseball that was a nail biter for the right reasons, not the ones caused by bad defense, shoddy bullpen work, and non-existent offense.

 

Two aces dueling is all real baseball fans pray for. Don’t tell me it’s boring with no offense, that means you don’t know anything about baseball. Both pitchers will be on all the Cy Young graphics with deGrom and they performed as well as they have all year.

Fortunately for the Phillies and credit to Odubel, Scherzer’s one mistake got taken over the fence to put Phils up 2-0 (also shout out Franco for drawing two walks) which they held courtesy of Nola. That’s what real baseball is.

 

And our ace just out pitched Max Scherzer so that means Aaron Nola now gets the different colored eye and Scherzer turns to dust right?

 

 

Aside from me drooling over how pretty that game was, it was important because hopefully Gabe uses it to pump up the locker room.

 

The team looks tired. Not that they’ve given up, they just seem to not have anything left in the tank.

 

There hasn’t been a person for the team to rally behind and really drive the emotion in the locker room (I mean seriously this is the most boring group of dudes, not like Manfred would ever let players have personalities anyway but that’s another rant). So, hopefully this game is used as an opportunity for the team to all rally around Aaron and make a late season push.

If this team wants to get back on top or even back into the wild card they’re going to need to fix a lot more but morale is step one. When we look back on the season this could 100% be the game we look at and say, “that was the game the Phillies figured it out, that was the game they flipped the switch.” Because this team does have a switch, or more of a dial. It’s been turned up to at most a 7 out of 10 this year but if Gabe can get everyone motivated by this gorgeous win then there’s no reason the dial can’t be turned all the way up to 10.

 

So, let’s all thank Aaron Nola now for pulling the team out of this little slump and keeping the postseason chances alive.

 

By Vince Scian | August 23, 2018