ATLANTA –
The victory snapped the Braves’ eight-game winning streak and moved the Phillies within 1 1/2 games of the Braves in the National League East. The Phillies can win the series with a victory Sunday afternoon.\n\n“What an answer,”
It is a concern that he has been unable to get into a groove and stay there. His command has not allowed him to do that. He is throwing only 63.1 percent of his pitches for strikes this season, which is the lowest mark of his career.\n\n“I want to get it straightened out soon,” Nola said. “I feel like I have a good start, bad start, OK start, bad start, just up and down. It's kind of how the year's been for me. Walks and home runs hurt me this year. I feel like getting ahead is the key for me. I haven't been doing that too much but a lot of times I'm barely missing. That's pretty much been the big thing for me.”\n\n“I have no concerns or worries about Aaron Nola turning the corner,” Kapler said. “And when he does, it’s going to be fun to watch.”
“To me, most of it is about mental strength that you have to have in this game,” Hernandez said through the team’s interpreter. “A lot of players, if not all, go through slumps, so you have to know how to deal with that and just keep fighting, keep grinding. Luckily for me today, I was able to kind of get out of it and help my team win.”\n\nA win they desperately needed.\n\n“You know, that's a good team that's playing right now over there,” Bruce said. “They've won -- that was going to be their ninth in a row? They've won eight in a row, and they hadn't done that in a long time. Everything was kind of falling their way. It was kind of a situation where it was a huge win to answer back like that. Kind of shows you what our team is capable of doing. We have a chance to win the series tomorrow, so it was a big, big win for us and a good bounce back game.”\n\n**Worth noting** \nIn the fifth inning, Freeman's foul tip hit