The Philadelphia Phillies are moving on in the 2022 MLB playoffs to play the Atlanta Braves after sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Phillies won the best-of-three series in two games. They will move on to the NL Division Series and a date with a familiar foe, the NL East Champion Atlanta Braves. Game 1 of that best-of-five series begins Tuesday night in Atlanta. It will be the Phillies' fourth trip to Atlanta this season. They went 8-11 against the Braves. The two teams do have some postseason history. The Phillies beat the Braves in the 1993 NL Championship Series.
Aaron Nola followed Wheeler with 6⅔ scoreless innings in Saturday night's series clincher. The right-hander scattered four hits, walked one and struck out six. Five of his strikeouts came with runners on base. He got two of them with a runner on second base in the first inning and two more with a runner on first in the sixth. Those strikeouts in the sixth came against the Cardinals' two most dangerous hitters, Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado.
What a week it was for Nola. The longest-tenured Phillie retired the first 20 batters he faced in Monday night's playoff clincher, a 3-0 win in Houston, then came back five days later and delivered the goods in the first postseason start of his career. Over his last two starts, both of huge importance to the team, Nola has pitched 13⅓ scoreless innings.Monday night in Houston, Nola was backed by three solo homers -- two by Kyle Schwarber and one by Bryson Stott.
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