Starting pitcher Adam Eaton #21 of the Philadelphia Phillies (Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images)
On this day in 2007, the Phillies infamously made professional sports history.
The Philadelphia Phillies are among the oldest professional sports franchises in history.
Among, but not the oldest.
As such, on this day 14 years ago, July 15, 2007, the organization made history. As Baseball-Reference noted, the Phillies became the first professional sports club to reach quintuple digits in this statistic — not all-time wins, but rather all-time losses.
The 10,000th all-time Phillies loss was secured with a 10-2 home loss to the St.