Jul 25, 2025, 07:15 PM ET<\/p>\n
NEW YORK — Philadelphia’s<\/a> Aaron Nola<\/a> threw 56 pitches to batters Friday as he ramped up his comeback from a sprained right ankle and fractured rib that have sidelined him since May.<\/p>\n A 32-year-old right-hander, Nola could make his first minor league rehab start next week.<\/p>\n “The ankle went a lot longer than I thought it was going to, but the ankle felt really good today and the rib felt really good today,” Nola said.<\/p>\n He hurt the ankle during agility drills on May 8. Nola made a pair of ineffective starts and was placed on the IL effective May 15.<\/p>\n Nola threw a bullpen session June 1 and felt sore a few days later. An MRI showed a stress fracture of a rib, Phillies manager Rob Thomson revealed June 10.<\/p>\n “I’d like to see him get to at least 90 pitches,” Thomson said. “The first time out, it’ll probably be the same as this was today — 55, 60 pitches. And then we’ll start graduating 15 pitches per outing to get him to 90.”<\/p>\n Nola is on the IL for a physical injury for the first time since 2017. He was 1-7 with a 6.16 ERA in nine starts and 49\u2154 innings.<\/p>\n “I feel like I have a lot of bullets left right now,” Nola said. “But obviously I have to be smart about it, too.”<\/p>\n Nola has a 105-86 record and 3.78 ERA in 277 starts over 11 big league seasons. He allowed 13 runs over 8\u2154 innings with the bad ankle.<\/p>\n “The ankle, I use it a lot more than I thought I did. Both ankles,” he said.<\/p>\n Nola said the ankle injury caused the rib problem.<\/p>\n “I wasn’t able to rotate as much as I usually do. My rib, I guess, took the brunt of the work and ended up getting a stress fracture.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 25, 2025, 07:15 PM ET NEW YORK — Philadelphia’s Aaron Nola threw 56 pitches to batters Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-24307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}