To say that 2021 has been a frustrating and perplexing season for Andrew McCutchen and Didi Gregorius would be an understatement.
It’s been largely awful for both players, especially as the Phillies try to end a nine-year postseason drought. Offensively, Bryce Harper, J.T. Realmuto and Jean Segura have largely held up their end of the bargain, with Harper carrying the team on his shoulders much the same way Ryan Howard did on his way to the 2006 NL MVP award.
But in Monday night’s 2-0 stinker of a defeat at the hands of the 101-loss Baltimore Orioles, McCutchen and Gregorius were unable to come up with the key hit in the evening’s only offensive uprising.