SAN DIEGO — Never mind that Jacob Nix was making his major-league debut here Friday night or that he had started exactly one game above the double-A level. The Phillies, manager Gabe Kapler said, had more than enough video on the San Diego Padres righthander and didn’t need to hire Sherlock Holmes to track it down.
“There’s some film on him,” Kapler said before the game. “If you just wanted to dig into YouTube, there’s some good stuff on there.”
If preparation wasn’t a challenge, it can’t be an excuse either. But the way the Phillies’ offense has been going lately, getting shut out by Nix for six innings of a 2-0 loss in the series opener against the lowly Padres was merely par for the course.