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Aaron Nola<\/strong> has not had the season that he or the Phillies wanted, but it hasn\u2019t fully cost them yet. They entered Sunday 9-8 in games he\u2019s started this year.<\/p>\n Often, the Phillies haven\u2019t left him in long enough to turn his rough outings into uncompetitive laughers. And that\u2019s where Nola\u2019s struggles this season have arguably hurt the most: by taxing the bullpen. <\/p>\n So, with the Phillies playing their 15th game in a 22-game, 23-day stretch before the All-Star break, the deepest outing of Nola\u2019s season came at a good time. He worked seven innings of three-run ball against the Royals on Sunday, the first time this season he\u2019s gone seven innings.<\/p>\n But the other half of Nola\u2019s season so far \u2014 the run support \u2014 didn\u2019t follow. The Phillies scored two runs against Luinder Avila<\/strong> and the Royals, dropping the second game of the series 5-2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Early on, it looked like Nola\u2019s outing was trending toward the kind that has sunk his 2026 so far. Kansas City scored twice in the first, requiring 23 pitches. <\/p>\n But he settled in. He surrendered four hits across the following six innings. He didn\u2019t walk a batter all day. He struck out seven. Nola induced 19 whiffs on 55 swings.<\/p>\n The Phillies couldn\u2019t break through against Avila, who entered Sunday with a 5.40 ERA in 16 games (seven starts) this year. He scattered three hits and a run in five solid frames.<\/p>\n That run came when Bryson Stott<\/strong>, who had two of the Phillies\u2019 five hits overall, tripled in the fifth, before Gabriel Rincones Jr.<\/strong>, who doubled in the third and is 5-for-13 in July, drove him in with a sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n Stott singled in the seventh, then scored when Garrett Stubbs<\/strong> beat out a double play ball. <\/p>\n That was all the offense could muster. The top three in the order went 0-for-11, including three strikeouts by Bryce Harper<\/strong>. One of those came against former Phillie Matt Strahm<\/strong>, who threw a scoreless sixth. <\/p>\n Kyle Backhus<\/strong> couldn\u2019t strand a pair of runners, inherited from Seth Johnson<\/strong>, in the eighth to keep it a one-run game. Salvador Perez<\/strong> hit a two-run double to make it 5-2.<\/p>\n The Phillies are 50-40<\/strong>. The rare wraparound series ends with Monday\u2019s rubber match behind Cristopher S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>. <\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source philliesnation.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aaron Nola went seven innings on Sunday in Kansas City. (Photo by Matthew Huang\/Icon Sportswire) Aaron Nola has not had the season that he or the Phillies wanted, but it hasn\u2019t fully cost them yet. They entered Sunday 9-8 in games he\u2019s started this year. 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