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The batting order will look different when the Phillies return to Citizens Bank Park. Thomson is left with no choice.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust change the mindset a little bit, you know?\u201d Thomson said.<\/p>\n
The Phillies began this trip with a seven-run first inning<\/a> at Coors Field. They scored 12 runs over the next 53 innings. They managed one extra-base hit in the final two games at Oracle Park, a place where they still have not won a series against the San Francisco Giants since 2013. It\u2019s easy to overreact to a 20-inning scoreless streak in April. But underreacting is dangerous, too.<\/p>\n \u201cHas it been that long?\u201d Bryce Harper asked.<\/p>\n Yes. Twenty innings.<\/p>\n \u201cOh, wow, I didn\u2019t know that,\u201d Harper said. \u201cYeah. I mean, on a personal level, I feel great. So, I\u2019m happy about that. But obviously, as a team, that doesn\u2019t really help us. We have to come together as a team and play better and have better at-bats and all those things. I mean, all the things that you guys know and that everybody knows.\u201d<\/p>\n Harper reached on an infield single that should have been a fielder\u2019s choice had Giants shortstop Willy Adames remembered someone was running to second base. Harper walked in the third inning, then hit two weak groundouts to the right side. Harper raised his OPS by 324 points during this six-game trip, so that was nice. But he\u2019s not exempt from the malaise that has infected the Phillies\u2019 lineup.<\/p>\n Thomson was perturbed afterward. Is there anything common among the team\u2019s failed at-bats?<\/p>\n \u201cPull-side groundballs,\u201d Thomson said. \u201cTen pull-side ground-ball outs. You have to use the field.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s not unusual for the Phillies\u2019 entire lineup to go into launch mode, where every swing is designed with a home run in mind. The fact it\u2019s happening now, so soon into the season, makes it more noticeable. The Phillies have a .658 OPS through 12 games. That is tied for their lowest mark in the first 12 games of a season over the last decade.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know how contagious hitting is,\u201d said catcher J.T. Realmuto, who will probably miss another game Friday with a badly bruised and swollen foot. \u201cWe\u2019re just missing that spark where it takes one two-out knock to get us to score seven instead of zero. We have a good track record of playing really good baseball. Obviously, right now, that\u2019s not what we\u2019re doing. But we know we\u2019re just one good swing away from the whole team taking off.\u201d<\/p>\n Inside the clubhouse, there is a sense that everyone else but them is panicking. The Phillies have had stretches like this before; they were even held scoreless for 26 innings last June. There is a certain fatigue that comes with every Phillies slump, and that is a painstaking way to consume baseball for six months. The pessimist says: Great, just like last year\u2019s team that accomplished so much. The optimist says: The Phillies would love to win 96 games like last year\u2019s team and take another shot at October.<\/p>\n \u201cYou just have to stay the course,\u201d Thomson said. \u201cThese guys are going to hit. It\u2019s just a matter of time, and we\u2019re just going through a dry spell. We haven\u2019t really hit all that much the entire season, to be honest. But they\u2019re going to hit at some point. \u2026 I trust these guys. They\u2019re going to get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n But Thomson determined, even minutes after the loss, that he would alter the course ever so slightly. He likes how Adolis Garc\u00eda, who is hitting .250\/.306\/.432, has swung the bat. There is a good chance Garc\u00eda is batting cleanup Friday. Thomson could just swap Garc\u00eda and Brandon Marsh, who have been batting sixth and seventh, with Alec Bohm and Bryson Stott, who have been batting fourth and fifth.<\/p>\n Bohm was 0-for-4 in Wednesday\u2019s loss with three groundouts to the pull side. Bohm homered on Opening Day. He has one extra-base hit since, a jam-shot double down the right-field line that was a key hit in the Phillies\u2019 lone win at Oracle Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not a great start for a player the Phillies were close to discarding over the offseason. They did not acquire a proven right-handed bat for the middle of the lineup, and instead doubled down on Bohm\u2019s abilities as a cleanup man. Retreating from that only two weeks into the season is a tough look, but probably warranted.<\/p>\n The whole thing has felt disjointed, and that is natural when there aren\u2019t runs being scored. The Phillies were proud of that first inning at Coors Field because, for most of it, no one tried to do too much. It was a fleeting feeling.<\/p>\n The Phillies have ranked among the National League\u2019s top five offenses in runs scored per game in each of the last four seasons. Why does Harper believe the Phillies can do it again?<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to be, right?\u201d Harper said. \u201cLike, I mean, that\u2019s what it is. I mean, we have to do it. I don\u2019t have any other answer for you besides that we have to do it. We\u2019ve got to be that team because if we\u2019re not, then we\u2019re not going to be where we want to be at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n Only 150 games to go.\n<\/p><\/div>\n SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 When the 20th consecutive inning without a Phillies run passed, Rob Thomson looked down at his lineup card and scribbled a few final notes. The Phillies started packing the dugout Wednesday afternoon at Oracle Park after a 5-0 loss, knowing they won\u2019t see this place again for a long time. 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