The Phillies lost 3-0 in St. Louis on Tuesday night. Eight hits, including a couple from the struggling Nick Castellanos, but they just couldn’t drive in runners in scoring position. They loaded the bases with one out in the top of the 7th and struck out twice to end the inning.

They’re 5-6 with a -9 run differential through 11 games.

It’s the RISP thing that’s killing them again through the early going:

According to the SportRadar data, the Phillies are bottom 10 in most meaningful RISP statistics. They’re batting .235 with runners in scoring position, which is 22nd in Major League Baseball. They have just 20 hits with RISP, which is also 22nd in the league. And they only have 85 at-bats and 102 plate appearances with runners in scoring position, so they’re not getting guys on base very much to begin with.

Adding some Baseball Reference stats, the Phillies have just two doubles and three home runs with RISP. Their team-wide OPS with runners in scoring position is .708 (19th), and they’ve grounded into a league-high six double plays with RISP. The only are where they’ve done a decent job with RISP is drawing walks (8th in MLB) and stealing bases (4th), so they’re finding some success there, they just can’t hit the baseball with the bat.

Early days, sure, but feels like we write this story every April.

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