I assure you, there are good times ahead for the Philadelphia Phillies in 2022. Even the best baseball teams endure some rough patches throughout a 162-game season, and there is simply too much talent on the roster for the team to play bad baseball for very long. Of course, acknowledging that truth doesn’t make it much easier to watch awful games like Friday night’s when the Phillies lost to the Marlins 7-1.
This game was bad right from the start. In the top of the first, the Phillies did that thing that they do so often: Get a couple of baserunners aboard but fail to get any of them home.