As the Phillies finished up a lackluster series loss to the San Diego Padres yesterday on the heels of a dynamic weekend series in which they took three out of four from the Dodgers in Los Angeles, no one who was watching was surprised.
If there is one hallmark of these Phillies squads over the last four seasons it is that there is no such thing as momentum. One series does not build upon another. They are a walking Law & Order season, an episodic team in which one game/series is completely separate and unrelated to the one before.