After a three-hour rain delay, the Phillies played from behind in a 4-1 loss to the Reds that dropped them to 2-4 on a season-opening homestand.
First came the rain delay — 3 hours and 55 minutes, according to the official record, but longer if you account forin the original start time due to the forecast. But the Phillies and Reds were hell-bent on maintaining their days off Thursday, so they waited. And waited., wearing short sleeves, uncorked the first pitch at 8 p.m., it was 48 degrees with a 23-mph wind speed, the worst combination of those two factors for a game in Philadelphia in 17 years .
The Phillies were outscored 25-12 in the first three games against the powerhouse Braves and 14-13 by the upstart Reds. They batted .223 in the six games and struck out 54 times. They played from behind a lot.is 4-for-19. Johan Rojas beat out a tapper to third base in the third inning for his first hit of the season. He’s 1-for-15.The Phillies started 1-5 last year and 3-3 in 2022, so they’ve been here before. But those records spiraled to 25-32 and 21-29 at their respective low points.
“I think there’s a lot of positive things to take away from the home stand, but at the end of the day, we wanted to finish better than 2-4,” Kyle Schwarber said after blasting a leadoff homer in the sixth inning to account for the Phillies’ scoring. “We’ve got a good challenge ahead here on the road.”, even as the Reds called on lefty reliever Justin Wilson. Marsh took a strike, laid off a high fastball, then skied a foul pop to third baseman Jeimer Candelario for the rally-ending out.
Wheeler missed the strike zone badly with his first three pitches of the game — “Felt like I’d never thrown a baseball before,” he said, oozing self-deprecation — but regrouped quickly. He mostly avoided damage by striking out 10 batters.led to two unearned runs in the third inning. The Reds added a run in the sixth on back-to-back two-out doubles by Jake Fraley and Elly De La Cruz.Looking for silver linings? Wheeler’s continued excellence is a big one.
But as the Phillies head to Washington to open a series Friday night, the offense is still looking to heat up.
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