The Phillies’ slog through this tough part of their schedule has dropped them to the 7th best record in the NL:
On May 16th the Phillies won the one game of their rain-shortened series in Baltimore to move to 24-16. We knew that the schedule had been fairly easy up to that point, and that the next month and a half were going to be much tougher. There were 42 games scheduled from that point through July 1st, in which the Phillies would face some of the NL’s better teams, plus the Yankees.