PHILADELPHIA -- It wasn't the first time I had gone to Ke'Bryan Hayes to talk about the team being in a rough stretch.
It also wasn't the first time I heard something like this.
“Regardless what happened the night before, you have to come back and treat every game like your record’s 0-0," the third baseman told me.
But their record isn't 0-0. Since the All-Star break, it's 8-24, contributing for a good chunk of those 78 losses on the season. And with losses like the Pirates' 7-4 defeat to the Phillies at Citizen''s Bank Park, it's hard to imagine that a stretch of losing isn't taking at least some toll on the team, even if they don't want to admit it.