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No-homer run over as Nola serves up two
- Updated: May 21, 2016
PHILADELPHIA — Two swings of the bat hurt Aaron Nola on Friday night, and to his displeasure, they both came with two outs and one runner on base.
Nola, who had not given up a home run since April 16, was taken deep by both Freddie Freeman and Nick Markakis in the Phillies’ 7-1 loss to the Braves. Nola gave up five runs (just two were earned) in seven innings, and all but one came via those long balls.
Freeman put Atlanta ahead in the third inning, when he sent the first pitch he saw over the right-field wall. Markakis, a left-handed hitter like Freeman, went the opposite way in the seventh inning as his two-run shot — Markakis’ first homer this season — broke the game open. Both blasts came on fastballs Nola left over the plate.
“Solo home runs are better [than two-run homers],” the right-hander said afterward. “That kind of hurt me, those two, two-run home runs. I made some mistakes. That ball to Freddie leaked over the plate too much, I was trying to go a little farther inside. And that ball to Markakis, I left it over the middle.”
Nola entered the game with just three homers allowed in 53 innings …
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