The Phillies dropped three of four games to the Rockies this weekend at Coors Field. Let’s get mad. REALLY MAD.

Ready? Here it goes:

It doesn’t matter the Phillies were a strike away from a win on Friday night that would’ve helped secure a series split and a winning week. It doesn’t matter that Odubel Herrera, Scott Kingery, and Jean Segura are each currently on the injured list. This is April, dammit, and their effort this weekend was a total embarrassment. When they lose the division by a game…

Yeah, sorry. I tried. Can’t do it.

I can’t get mad about what I watched this weekend. Blackmon’s Friday night walk-off was a killer, for sure. It’s also true the offense, or what’s currently left of it, was lackluster in all three losses, but if you came for a condemnation, you’re out of luck. The closest thing I can muster right now is some mild disappointment in Cesar Hernandez, who was next-level bad this afternoon.

How bad? Try 0 for 5 at the plate, with six runners left on base and four runners left in scoring position. He also made the game’s last out. On a 3-2 pitch. As the tying run. With Bryce Harper on deck:

Have a day, babe! Have. A. Day.

But Hernandez’s biggest blunder came during the top of the fourth inning. With his team trailing 1-0, he jogged off the field despite being ruled safe at second base by umpire Joe West on a fielder’s choice off the bat of Rhys Hoskins:

 

 

As you can see, the play wasn’t even close, with West also clearly signaling safe right in front of Hernandez, but his attention was seemingly elsewhere as he appeared to be the last person in the stadium to realize what was going on. To be fair, West wasn’t exactly Leslie Nielsen in Naked Gun out there, but it’s still a total boner of a play, one that Gabe Kapler said after the game “can’t happen.”

Agreed.

Making matters worse for Hernandez, Maikel Franco followed with a double, because of course Maikel Franco followed with a double, one that would have tied the game and set up the Phillies to potentially take the lead. As it turns out, that was as close as they would get.

It was a bad play in an awful game by Hernandez, but given the team’s current injury situation, there isn’t much the Phillies can do about it right now. With Segura still at least a week away and Kingery also on the shelf with what looks like a multi-week injury, he’s not coming out of the lineup. So if you want to get mad about Hernandez, that’s fine, I get it, but he’s still a solid player and the team’s best current option.

As for the bigger picture, the first place Phillies head to Citi Field for a three-game set against the Mets with a 12-9 record. Admittedly, this team has shown a proclivity to lose close games in excruciating fashion in the early going, thanks to a stomach-turning cocktail of bad luck, bad defense late in games, and some inconsistent relief pitching, but there’s no reason to get mad over what we’re seeing right now. At least not yet.