Injury Update: Aaron Nola rehab delayed for another two weeks with rib injury

Aaron Nola’s disastrous 2025 campaign just found another level.

The Phillies announced Tuesday that Nola is being shut down from all throwing activity for at least two weeks due to a stress reaction in his right rib.

This comes nearly a month after Aaron Nola originally hit the injured list with a right ankle sprain. While ramping up from that injury, he began experiencing discomfort in his side—what the team initially brushed off as “mild soreness.”

That soreness turned out to be a full-blown rib issue that now wipes out any short-term timeline for his return.

Aaron Nola with a right rib stress reaction

An MRI showed a stress reaction in Aaron Nola’s right rib cage, Rob Thomson said. Nola will not throw for at least two weeks. A rather significant setback that probably means he doesn’t return until after All-Star break.

— Matt Gelb (@MattGelb) June 10, 2025

It’s just the latest setback in what has been the worst stretch of Nola’s career. Before landing on the IL, Nola went 1-7 with a 6.16 ERA and 1.51 WHIP across nine starts. He couldn’t locate, couldn’t miss bats, and looked like a shell of the guy who helped lead the Phillies to a World Series two years ago.

Now he’ll be shelved for at least a couple more weeks, with no guarantee of when he might start a throwing program again, let alone return to the big-league rotation.

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This is a guy who has been baseball’s ironman since 2018, making 32 starts a season like clockwork. He’s the longest-tenured Phillie, a homegrown ace who just signed a big seven-year extension last winter. And everything that could go wrong has gone wrong.

The Phillies are still near the top of the NL standings, but they were banking on Nola to be a reliable workhorse behind Zack Wheeler. Now they’re just hoping he throws a baseball again sometime this month.

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Mick Abel takes the ball tonight. The rookie right-hander has been outstanding through his first few outings and will face Colin Rea and the Cubs again in Game 2 of the series.

Let’s see if the Fightins can stack two in a row. Lord knows the city could use it.

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