{"id":349896,"date":"2026-09-18T02:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349896\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T02:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:58:10","slug":"nola-dominates-mets-in-3-0-win-as-phillies-tie-cubs-for-top-nl-wild-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349896\/","title":{"rendered":"Nola dominates Mets in 3-0 win as Phillies tie Cubs for top NL wild card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Nola allowed three hits over seven innings and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Mets 3-0 Thursday night to tie the Chicago Cubs for the top NL wild card in a game interrupted by a scary collision that led to New York first baseman Jared Young being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/mets-jared-young-injury-collision-carted-off-field\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">carted off the field<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Young was knocked down when pitcher Nolan McLean struck him on the head with a knee when the two converged for Justin Crawford&#8217;s slow grounder in the sixth. Young was motionless on the field after the collision and taken to a hospital. New York manager Andy Green said a CT scan was negative and Young had concussion symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Nola (7-10) didn&#8217;t allow a hit until Nick Morabito singled with one out in the sixth. He struck out four and walked three, improving to 4-2 with a 2.07 ERA in his last 10 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Bowlan got two outs in the eighth before exiting due to right groin tightness with a 2-2 count on Francisco Lindor. Phillies manager Don Mattingly said Bowlan would be re-evaluated Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Jhoan Duran pitched a one-hit ninth for his 32nd save in 34 chances, finishing the Phillies&#8217; major league-high 19th shutout.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia is 85-68, the same as the Cubs. The Phillies closed within four games of NL East-leading Atlanta (89-64).<\/p>\n<p>New York has been blanked 15 times.<\/p>\n<p>Bryce Harper had an RBI single and Luis Arraez and Crawford had sacrifice flies.<\/p>\n<p>McLean (11-10) allowed one run, seven hits and three walks in five innings while striking out five.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Newly acquired RHP Jos\u00e9 Urquidy (2-2, 5.28 ERA) is expected to pitch for the Phillies in some capacity Friday against Mets LHP Zac Thornton (4-5, 3.44 ERA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Nola allowed three hits over seven innings and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Mets 3-0 Thursday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[996,9,11,10,5389],"class_list":["post-349896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}