{"id":100466,"date":"2025-05-16T17:12:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=100466"},"modified":"2025-05-16T17:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:12:55","slug":"phillies-place-aaron-nola-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/16\/phillies-place-aaron-nola-injured-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Place Aaron Nola On Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Phillies announced that Aaron Nola has been placed on the 15-day injured list with a right ankle sprain. Nola is coming off of what was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/phillies\/news\/aaron-nola-allows-9-runs-during-worst-start-of-career\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statistically the worst start<\/a> of his major league career. Daniel Robert has been recalled from Triple-A Lehigh Valley. Robert joining the Phillies is a temporary move. Nola has a 1-7 record with a 6.16 ERA and is <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/04\/24\/phillies-starting-pitcher-aaron-nola-struggling-early\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">struggling this season<\/a> through nine starts. Additionally, Nola has a 5.03 FIP and a 3.25 K\/BB rate this season. Nola has a career-worst 1.99 HR\/9 allowed rate this season as well. Opposing batters have a .294 average and a .348 BABIP against Nola this season. Nola has a 1.51 WHIP this season.<\/p>\n<h2>Phillies Pitcher Nola Placed On Injured List<\/h2>\n<h3>Rotation Adjustments<\/h3>\n<p>Phillies <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/12\/phillies-prospect-mick-abel\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">pitching prospect<\/a> Mick Abel will make his major league debut on May 18. The team announced that Abel will return to Triple-A afterwards and not make any additional major league starts at this time. According to the team, Taijuan Walker will re-join the rotation until Nola returns from the injured list. Abel has a 5-2 record with a 2.53 ERA in eight minor league starts this season. In addition, Abel has a 3.73 FIP and a 2.68 K\/BB rate this year. Abel has a 0.78 HR\/9 allowed rate in Triple-A this season. Opposing batters have a .215 average and a .282 BABIP against Abel in the minor leagues this season.<\/p>\n<p>Walker has a 1-3 record with a 2.62 ERA in eight outings this season. Six of those eight games have been starts. Walker has a 3.45 FIP and a 2.21 K\/BB rate this season. In addition, Walker has a 0.52 HR\/9 allowed rate this year. Walker has a 1.25 WHIP this season. Opposing batters have a .218 average and a .270 BABIP against Walker this season. As a starting pitcher, Walker has a 2.54 ERA and a 1.69 K\/BB rate this season. When starting a game this season, Walker has a 0.64 HR\/9 rate. Opposing batters have a .227 average and a .267 BABIP against Walker in games that he started this season.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Bill Streicher-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Phillies announced that Aaron Nola has been placed on the 15-day injured list with a right ankle sprain. Nola is coming off of what was statistically the worst start of his major league career. Daniel Robert has been recalled from Triple-A Lehigh Valley. Robert joining the Phillies is a temporary move. Nola has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4566,"featured_media":100468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1071,35],"tags":[1069,3657,701],"class_list":["post-100466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phillies","category-mlb","category-news","tag-aaron-nola","tag-mick-abel","tag-taijuan-walker"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100470,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100466\/revisions\/100470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}