X-rays on him were negative.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cOne of the trainers came down and told me about it,\u201d Phillies manager Rob Thomson said. \u201cI was anxious but happy there was no break for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Phils jumped in front in the second inning. Max Kepler lined a double to right-center and Alec Bohm sprinted in from first.<\/p>\n
From there, both Suarez and Strider were very effective. The Phillies didn\u2019t manage a second hit until Nick Castellanos\u2019 opposite-field knock against Enyel De Los Santos in the sixth inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Michael Harris II led off the fifth with a bloop single to shallow center and the Braves eventually loaded the bases. Suarez worked gutsily around the trouble, getting Matt Olson to whiff on a 2-2 high heater. He shrugged off a leadoff hit in the sixth, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a very long inning,\u201d Suarez said of the fifth. \u201cI was just thinking about trying to get out of it as quickly as I possibly could. It got complicated for a second there, but we were able to fight through.\u201d<\/p>\n
Out of the bullpen, the Phillies turned to Orion Kerkering, Matt Strahm and Jordan Romano. All three did their job well.<\/p>\n
The Phillies summoned a two-out rally in the eighth inning, capitalizing on Daysbel Hernandez’s erratic control and providing Romano an insurance run. Bohm scored his (and the Phillies’) second run when J.T. Realmuto walked with the bases loaded. <\/p>\n
Nola talks lingering injury\u00a0<\/p>\n
A few hours before first pitch, Aaron Nola stopped just short of the Phillies\u2019 dugout steps and discussed his right ankle sprain with reporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nola threw what Thomson called a \u201ctouch and feel\u201d bullpen session Tuesday \u2014 lower intensity and lower volume than a usual bullpen, but Nola\u2019s first time on the mound since being placed on the 15-day injured list.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nola said he continued to feel \u201ca little bit\u201d of discomfort with \u201ccertain movements.\u201d Though he hopes to ramp up further Thursday, Nola said he thinks he\u2019ll \u201cprobably\u201d need a rehab assignment before returning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cJust taking it day by day right now and then hopefully, Thursday I feel good when I get on the mound,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Realmuto\u2019s \u2018got to play through it\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thomson dropped Realmuto to eighth in the Phillies\u2019 lineup and bumped Bohm up to fifth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cJ.T.\u2019s trying a bunch of different stuff,\u201d Thomson said pregame. \u201cHe\u2019s working hard to maybe limit his leg kick a little bit … just get the timing better. So I just want to take a little pressure off him, move him down a little bit.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
With an 0-for-3 game, Realmuto\u2019s season average is at .228. He went 2 for 14 and struck out six times in the Phillies\u2019 series against the A’s.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thomson indicated he doesn\u2019t plan to increase Realmuto\u2019s rest days.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got to play through it because he\u2019s so important behind the plate to us and to our pitching staff,\u201d he said. \u201c(Rafael) Marchan does a great job as well, but J.T., he\u2019s the captain out there. \u2026 I want him out there as much as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phillies got right back to winning ways Tuesday night at Citizens Bank Park.\u00a0 Two days after having…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[1206,5,1207,113,11036,469,16702,90,4874],"class_list":{"0":"post-60337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-aaron-nola","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-bryce-harper","11":"tag-j-t-realmuto","12":"tag-phillies-analysis","13":"tag-phillies-game-story","14":"tag-phillies-news","15":"tag-ranger-suarez","16":"tag-rob-thomson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114584062815636969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}