Marlins have no answers for Nola, Phillies offense in shutout loss to open doubleheader
The Miami Marlins had no answer for Aaron Nola’s pitching. Marlins pitching had no answers for Philadelphia Phillies hitters.
Translation: Not the way Miami wanted to start its doubleheader on Friday.
Nola dazzled for seven scoreless innings and four Phillies players had multiple hits in the 11-0, seven-inning Philadelphia win. MLB doubleheader games during this pandemic-shortened season are seven innings. The Marlins drop to 20-20. The Phillies improve to 22-19 and now have a one-and-a-half game lead over the Marlins for second place in the NL East. The second game of the doubleheader is slated to start around 8:15 p.m.
Regardless, the Marlins’ offense was basically non-existent in its first game on Friday. Nola struck out 10 of the 25 batters he faced and held the Marlins without a hit until the fifth inning when Brian Anderson and Isan Diaz both hit singles. Anderson’s hit was erased when Garrett Cooper grounded into a double play. Anderson had two of Miami’s three overall hits in the game, his second coming with two outs in the seventh. Cooper was hit by a pitch after Anderson’s single to put runners on first and second before Diaz lined out to Didi Gregorious to end the game.
Meanwhile, Marlins starting pitcher Trevor Rogers, the ninth-ranked prospect in the Marlins’ organization according to MLB Pipeline, dazzled for two innings before Philadelphia’s offense came to life.
The Phillies scored four in the third inning on an Andrew McCutchen two-run home run and Jean Segura two-run double. They added five more before recording an out in the fourth on an Adam Haseley RBI single, McCutchen RBI single and Rhys Hoskins three-run homer to chase Rogers from the game.
Rogers’ ERA jumped from 3.00 heading into the game to 6.50.
They tacked on two more in the fifth against Robert Dugger, who is serving as the Marlins’ 29th man for the double header and tossed the final four innings to preserve Miami’s bullpen for the second game.
McCutchen had three hits, drove in three runs and was a triple shy of the cycle. Haseley also had three hits. Bohm and Hoskins both had two hits and scored two runs.
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