The Phillies will not suck forevermore. But they certainly suck right now.
Despite the recent evidence to the contrary, this is not an awful team. But even good teams hit patches in a season where they look awful, and the Phillies are clearly mired in one of those patches at the moment. That’s unfortunate timing, because for the second straight series, they’re facing a team for whom a lot of things are going right. Those trends continued on Friday night as the Phillies dropped a 4-0 game to the Chicago Cubs that was even less fun than that score would indicate.