DAILY MATCHUPS: Nola looks to come out firing against KC

Today's Overview/Schedule/Weather: A full day for the first Friday in August, which gets started early with a day gamer at Wrigley. There's several strong options throughout the slate. There's a chance of some wet weather on the Eastern seaboard, so check those forecasts later in the day it could affect games of KC@PHI, HOU@NYY and TOR@BOS.

 

Notable Starts:

Aaron Nola is coming off a rough outing where he allowed five earned runs over 4.2 innings while striking out six versus the Pirates. In five July starts, Nola had a 4.18 ERA and 3.11 xFIP with a 24.4% K-BB. As usual, Nola was able to rack up the strikeouts in his starts, but the ability to consistently shut down teams has been a consistent problem. He will look to fix that as he...

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