It was one game, nine innings, barely an eye-blink in the scope of a hectic stretch in the unrelenting baseball schedule. And with another game — the second half of a day-night doubleheader — set to be played later Sunday, it all might be washed away even before the workweek begins.
But in those nine innings, the young Phillies’ weaknesses were on full display.
In dropping the matinee portion of the double-dip, 10-2 to the San Diego Padres, the Phillies went 0 for 10 with runners in scoring position and left 11 on base. They committed a costly error when a pop-up fell in front of backpedaling second baseman Cesar Hernandez in the sixth inning and were unable to come up with a few other seemingly makeable plays, including on Hunter Renfroe’s two-out RBI single that got through the left side of the infield in the third inning.