'He did such a good job for us tonight, going out there and keeping them off balance, throwing big pitches when he needed to.'
PHILADELPHIA — It lasted only a heartbeat, a one-second sliver of a 199-minute symphony in South Philadelphia. For , though, it was a gesture nine seasons in the making, a heartfelt reaction to a hard-earned salute. “It felt like they turned up the notch a little bit, which was pretty awesome, pretty special, so I wanted to tip my cap and thank them,” Nola said Wednesday night, describing the gratitude rippling through Citizens Bank Park when he left the mound in the sixth inning of a of the .
And in order for them to do that is to not pitch as much as they if we don’t go deep in the game.” Manager Rob Thomson may have pulled Nola a bit early in Game 3, with two outs and one on in the sixth. He had thrown 92 pitches, but there was also a strategic reason: bringing in the left-handed Matt Straham would force the Braves to replace the next hitter, lefty , with the right-handed .
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