Slump underscores weaknesses, but Phillies confident in a turnaround
MINNEAPOLIS — There’s a certain level of panic a cold stretch can induce for a team that has the best record in baseball and a nine-game division lead, and it’s a lower level than for a club hovering around .500. No one — OK, no one outside the furthest reaches of X — is panicking about the Phillies, losers of six of nine games, three consecutive series, and 18 of 36.
