Before second-largest crowd of season, Tigers lay yet another egg

Tigers center fielder JaCoby Jones can't reach a fly ball hit by Phillies' Rhys Hoskins in the first inning of Wednesday's 4-0 loss. (Photo: Paul Sancya, Associated Press)

Detroit — Get this: It's about to get even worse.

On the city of Detroit's 318th birthday, the Tigers spittled all over the cake trying to blow out the candles, the result an uninspiring 4-0 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on an otherwise glorious Wednesday afternoon at Comerica Park.

The Tigers now are an unbelievably anemic 30-67, and by the time they actually return home, the team is likely to be a shell of itself — as if that even seems possible.

This was the Tigers' last home game before the July 31 trade deadline, as…