The Phillies will score again this season and surely they will win at least another game but since last Saturday (and I was at that game!) it's been all goose eggs except for a feeble ninth-inning rally on Sunday against an inept reliever. This week the Phillies were shut out three times by the Mets: 8-0, 5-0, and 3-0. It's the first time since May 1983 that they have been shut in three consecutive games and the first time since August 1974 that they have been shut out in four of five games. What's to say?
My humble suggestion is that the next time the team faces a knuckleballer they should field as many subs as possible. Most of them aren't hitting much anyway.
