SAN DIEGO — All things considered, it was probably the worst game that the Phillies have played all season.
With a victory Sunday, the Phillies would have headed home with a .500 record on this six-game West Coast swing. They would have maintained their lead in the National League East. And they would have won their 66th game, matching their total from all of last season in 45 fewer games.
But none of that happened. Instead, the Phillies played substandard defense, blundered on the bases with a five-run deficit in the fifth inning, got two hits through the first seven innings and and were humbled, 9-3 by the San Diego Padres, on a grand slam by Freddy Galvis, the light-hitting shortstop whom they traded away in the offseason.