When you have four kids under the age of four:

Or – when you cap off a 10-game road swing with a three-game losing streak.

The Phils got thumped 12-5 on Sunday to lose the Arizona series three games to one. They were outscored 23-6 on Saturday and Sunday with Cristopher Sanchez and Yunior Marte teaming up to concede 14 of those runs. The bats weren’t special either, combining for 18 hits over the weekend after taking the first series game by a 6-4 score line. They went into Arizona with some momentum, having just taken two of three from the Dodgers in LA, but after pulling everyone back from the ledge we’ve got a haggard Bryce Harper to exemplify the once-again-distressed Zeitgeist of the moment.

The Phillies are 69-49 and have lost 15 of 22 since the All-Star Break. They remain first in the NL East with a 7.5 game lead by virtue of the fact that the Mets and Braves are also a joke, the former being outscored 22-1 in a three-game road sweep at the hands of Seattle and the latter having lost 7 of 8. The entire division has been a dumpster fire since the break.

That’s the good thing, that the division lead has not waned. But it’s not because the Phillies have been good. It’s because everyone else has been incredibly bad. The positive? Well, they’re finally back home. Two against Miami and four against Washington, who have been better than the Phils, Mets, and Braves since the ASB. That doesn’t mean they’re playing well, because they aren’t they’ve just avoided being a total embarrassment.