Phillies win 30th game of 2024 behind Aaron Nola complete-game shutout

Final Score: Phillies 4, Mets 0

NEW YORK — The Phillies, even when they are not at full strength, continue to bully lesser teams.

They secured a 4-0 victory over the rival New York Mets at Citi Field to clinch a fifth series sweep this season and become the first team in MLB to reach 30 wins.

Aaron Nola bounced back from a rough outing against the Blue Jays and threw his third-career complete-game shutout to earn his fifth win of the season. He carried a perfect game into the sixth, but lost it on a leadoff single by Tyrone Taylor.

It would have been a great story, but it wasn’t in the books for the Phillies, who badly needed length out of Nola to give the bullpen a reset.

Nola is stacking up efficient outings. Tuesday marked the third time this season he has thrown at least eight innings, which is still more than every other team in baseball.

With Bryce Harper scratched from the lineup minutes before first pitch with a migraine, an understaffed Phillies lineup took advantage of Mets starter José Buttó’s shaky command and squeezed out two runs on a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch and walk in a 41-pitch third inning.

Highlights

• Bohm opened up the scoring with a second bases loaded hit-by-pitch in as many days. He playfully threw the bat like a basketball before jogging to first base. The next batter Marsh added another on a walk.
• This is even more rare than a perfect game. A ball hit off the bat of Taylor had so much spin on it that it hit the second chalk line and bounced back into fair territory. The first baseman Bohm stayed with it, scooped it up and tagged Taylor for the out.

• Nola pulled off a rare three-pitch inning in the seventh.

• The Phillies added two key insurance runs in the top of the ninth on a Bryson Stott single and Bohm double. Phillies fans in attendance loudly chanted “Let’s Go Phillies” as the home fans made their way to the exits.

Notes

• The Phillies squandered opportunities in the sixth and seventh to add on to the lead. Bohm and Marsh led off the sixth with base hits against Yohan Ramírez, but three straight batters were retired to end the threat. As former Phillie Jake Diekman struggled to throw strikes, Kyle Schwarber was picked off at second.

• The Phillies infield alignment on Tuesday without Harper was … interesting. Bohm shifted from third to first, Stott and Kody Clemens, penciled in at short and second base in the original lineups respectively, stayed at those positions. Natural second baseman Whit Merrifield played third base.
• The first 11 swing-and-misses from Mets batters came on Nola’s curveball. The 12th, which came in the ninth inning, was on a sinker to Brandon Nimmo.

Ticket IQ Next Game

• Wednesday, May 15 vs. New York Mets at Citizens Bank Park
• 6:45 p.m. EST
• NBC Sports Philadelphia, MLB Network (out-of-market only)
• 94 WIP

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