PHILADELPHIA — On Saturday, Phillies interim manager Rob Thomson said that when a team is winning, things just seem to go right. Nick Castellanos will drive in a run with a check-swing double. First-time second baseman Matt Vierling will have six ground balls hit to him, and will field them all with ease.
On Sunday, in the Phillies’ 13-1 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks at Citizens Bank Park, those things stopped going right.
In the first inning, with runners at first and second and no outs, third baseman Alec Bohm, whose defense has looked much better recently, missed a runner coming toward him at third base and decided to throw to second base on a potential double play ball instead. No outs were recorded on the play, and it loaded the bases.
