DeCamara: Last night's Phillies' loss was a 'disgrace'
Everyone expected the Phillies to return home from their 4-6 road trip and right the ship on Tuesday against the lowly Miami Marlins, but that did not happen. Instead, the Phils were held to four hits, committed two errors and lost 5-0.
"It was a disgrace," Joe DeCamara said of last night's Phillies to the Marlins on Wednesday's 94WIP Morning Show. "At a certain point it's not about the standings. It's about the product. It's about the effort. This is a lousy product with lousy effort these days...It is a listless team with listless body language and a performance that freakin' stinks!
"And I'm not going to go so far over the top where I declare the season. No, season is not over. But this team is too good to be playing like this. There's too much talent to be playing like this.
"Here's the problem, that game should not have been done when Taijuan [Walker] gave up two runs in the first inning, but anybody who watched it knew it was," DeCamara said. "What happened to our fightin' Phils? Where's the fight? Where's the heart? Where is the skill? What happened to our squad, ladies and gentleman?"
Phillies fans began to boo in the first inning when the Marlins took a 2-0 lead.
Trea Turner, who committed one of the two Phillies' errors, went 0-4 at the plate. He is now 16-95 (.168) over his last 22 games. Bryson Stott also went 0-4 on Tuesday. Stott is hitting just .232 this season and is just 1 for his last 18.
In his first start in over seven weeks, Walker allowed three earned runs on four hits in four innings of works, throwing just 44 strikes on 76 total pitches.
