Bad news: The Phillies are tied with the Braves atop the NL East.

Good news: It’s the last time we see Freddy Galvis until next year.

It wasn’t a good weekend for the Phils as they lost two of three to the NL-worst Padres in San Diego, despite getting another bat in Justin Bour.

Friday saw the Phils’ offense silenced as Jacob Nix helped San Diego to a 2-0 shutout after allowing four hits and four strikeouts in six innings. Despite the loss, Zach Eflin, who was later optioned to Triple-A to make room for Bour, went six innings and gave up two runs off five hits with eight strikeouts. As for Galvis, he went 2 for 3 with an RBI single in the bottom of the second.

The bats did return on Saturday, delivering two home runs from Maikel Franco and Cesar Hernandez along with a Nick Williams triple in a 5-1 win. It also helped that Aaron Nola was on the mound and threw six innings. He gave up four hits and three walks to go along with five strikeouts.

But the rubber match saw Jake Arrieta turn in a really forgettable performance. The right-hander went five innings but gave up eight hits and five runs on four strikeouts in a 9-3 loss. He gave up a grand slam homer in the third to none other than Galvis. The bats were also silenced until the eighth when the Phils had a mini-rally and scored three runs to try to make something out of it. But Austin Davis gave up three runs in the bottom half of the inning. Bour did come in to pinch-hit and got a single in the ninth.

With the 2-4 west coast road trip done, the Phils return home tied for first in the NL East with the Braves. And the schedule doesn’t get easier after the day off, as the team welcomes Boston for their second two-game series of the season. After that, there’s a ton of competition against the NL East. Bour could be the key to having success in the next month and a half.

But let’s hope the offense fixes the train-wreck.

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The Roundup:

After the team’s loss to the Steelers in the preseason opener Thursday night, which included some national anthem stuff, the team had a day off from practice before returning to the Linc for their final open session of training camp.

Nick Foles returned while Dallas Goedert left early. Some thought it was a broken arm, but that’s why you don’t trust #FansWithSources.

Goedert’s arm was still attached Sunday and he said it was only a bruise. Also, Avonte Maddox got reps as the first team slot corner. He’s been rising as of late. In both days, Markus Wheaton and Donnel Pumphrey didn’t practice. That ain’t good for either of them.

And then, a surprise.

You’d think that’d mean the end of the Joe Callahan era right? WRONG. Ian Park was waived/injured. This was his best moment as an Eagle:

Adam Zaruba was also officially waived.

In other news, Carson Wentz may have better velocity in his third year:

Arm strength has always been one of Wentz’s strengths, and it was perhaps logical to expect that the velocity on his throws would dip a bit, simply because he is still rehabbing his torn ACL and LCL, suffered in December of last year. That has not been the case. In fact, according to data the Eagles use that tracks such things, Wentz is throwing with more velocity than he was in 2016 or 2017.

“Those are things we track actually with the footballs and things that we have,” said Doug Pederson when asked if Wentz’s velocity has improved from last year to this year. “We can monitor that stuff. Velocity has been up, accuracy has been up. Those are the things he’s been able to work on over the course of the year.

“He got better last year, obviously, in games. To me it’s all about eye placement, decision making, accuracy, timing. It’s all about the eyes and where you throw it and how you see it. That’s one thing he’s continued to get better at and work on. I do feel like now, because of the injury, he’s focusing a little more on lower body strength. It’s really correlated to velocity and overall speed of the throw.”

In other words, assuming the data is correct, it’s more of a fact that Wentz is throwing with more velocity than it is the opinion of a reporter or a head coach.

Isaac Seumalo may be one of the most improved players on the roster. But the high snaps are a reason why he might be on the roster bubble:

“If you ask any player in our locker room on the offensive line, they’d tell you the same thing: He’s probably the most improved player right now. That guy’s having an unbelievable camp,” Stoutland said. “Then he goes and snaps the ball over the QB’s head and we lose 17 yards on a run, which was wired – the run was going to be a good run.

“Isaac is very conscientious, he’s very intelligent. He’s got Kelce ability with setting protections and all that stuff. … When he gets all excited a little bit, that’s when something like that happens. The one thing Isaac will do is, he’ll learn from that.”

Seumalo, 6-4, 303, said he understands the high snaps have to stop.

“I know the coaches and guys are concerned about it. I’m going to work on it, and it will get fixed,” he said. “I’m 100 percent positive about that.”

We almost had another Deflategate on our hands, but the league quickly ended that possibility.

New Vikings offensive coordinator and former Eagles QB coach John DeFilippo had nice things to say about his former boss:

FMIA: What are the most valuable lessons you take from working with Doug Pederson?

DeFilippo: “Two things I’m going to give you. Number one, trust in his assistant coaches. He trusted [offensive coordinator] Frank Reich to pull the whole thing together. He and Frank both trusted all the offensive assistants to have our own areas and be the master of that area. So the trust on that coaching staff was earned—if Doug put you in charge of red-area plays, he trusted you to be the best in the league at knowing the best things to do in that area. Number two: Coach is gonna do it his way. His way is pedal to the medal. He wants to score on every play. He gets upset sometimes because we don’t score on every play, in a good way. He’s going to stay on the attack when there’s that point in the game where you can either try to put an opponent away or just kind of ride it out. He’ll always take the shot to put the opponent away. And the players followed. In all we did, we locked arm and arm, here we are, and prepared the same no matter who we played. Our term for that year was, ‘faceless opponent.’ And each week we treated our opponent like it was a faceless person.

“I should also say in my two years in Philadelphia, I never heard Mr. Lurie [owner Jeffrey Lurie] say no to anything we needed. I mean, Nick Foles was having some issues in training camp last year and we bought this special machine to help him in his rehab that cost a lost of money. We also had an emphasis in the draft and free agency on bringing in quality people. There’s gonna be a time in the NFL season when you’ll have ups and downs—a player mad at a coach, a coach mad at a player, an argument on the field. If you have good character people and great locker room character, I think you get over those things. Carson Wentz goes down in December, and as awful as we felt for him, everybody’s ready to step in and do a little more—because we knew we all had to.”

The Sixers released their 2018-19 schedule on Friday. They’re on national TV 27 times this year.

We were also blessed with a montage of T.J. McConnell assists.

The Union earned three big points in a 3-2 win over New England Saturday night. Jack Elliott had two first half goals and Fafa Picault scored the game-winner on a penalty kick in the 76th minute. So yes, Philadelphia beat New England in football… again.

In other sports news, Brooks Koepka held off Tiger Woods to win the PGA Championship. It’s his second major this year and third overall. Tiger was definitely back.

The Jaguars (probably Tom Coughlin) suspended Jalen Ramsey and Dante Fowler for one week for “violating team rules and conduct unbecoming of a Jaguars football player.” Yep, definitely Coughlin’s idea.

Rob Ellis left NBC Sports Philadelphia.

DelcoDelphia debuted their latest edition of the Philly Power Hour.

Saquon Barkley had a beautiful run in his preseason debut and Dak Prescott finally threw a touchdown pass this preseason!

College lacrosse, if you care, is getting a 60 second shot clock. It’ll become more like basketball.

In the news, there was a triple shooting outside a graduation party in East Oak Lane.

White nationalists were outnumbered at their own rally in Washington D.C. yesterday.

Pentagon chief Jim Mattis is fine with a Space Force.