CHICAGO — Nobody ever believed a 10-game, 11-day odyssey from Philadelphia to Los Angeles to San Francisco to Chicago would be easy for the Phillies. But after everything that has happened to them in the past week and a half, there’s only one thing left to say.
Mercy.
It was bad enough to lose slugger Rhys Hoskins to a fractured jaw and utility man Pedro Florimon to a broken foot during the series at Dodger Stadium. It turned out, though, that scoring one run in three games against the Giants was so frustrating that veteran pitcher Jake Arrieta felt compelled to rail against everything from the offense to the shift to rookie shortstop Scott Kingery’s defense.