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The symptoms sounded familiar, so Nola — who has been slumping so badly he was sent to the minors — underwent a battery of neurology and ophthalmology tests recently at UC San Diego, UCLA and UC Irvine.. “I just couldn’t figure it out. I just didn’t know why I wasn’t seeing the ball.”
Nola, who has not played since Aug. 2, was placed on Triple-A El Paso’s injured list Saturday with oculomotor dysfunction, which affects eye movement. He believes it’s the reason for his struggles. The Padres believe a fastball that hit Nola in his nose in Mesa, Ariz., on March 19 is the culprit, but the dozens of fastballs he has taken off the mask make it difficult for him to single out one event. He suffered a small fracture toward the top of his nose and a cut that required three stitches. He returned to the spring-training lineup eight days later and was in the Padres’ opening day lineup on March 30.Nola was hitting .
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