The Phillies suffered a 5-4 loss to the Marlins in 11 innings on Tuesday night. The defeat was their ninth in the last 11 games.
The club did show some fight before going down, using back-to-back solo homers from Marlon Byrd and Cody Asche to tie the game in the eighth inning.
While the ability to rally is not lost on analyst Ricky Bottalico, the fact that the team has been reduced to moral victories at this point in the season is a reason to be alarmed.
"They have struggled at home. Now they leave. You go into Miami. You have to win games against NL East foes," Bottalico said on Tuesday during Phillies Postgame Live. "What happens the first game? You battle back. Yeah, that's all fine and dandy. Seriously, does it matter anymore? Does fighting back matter anymore? Ws [matter]."
Wins have been hard to come by for the Phillies, who now sit 9½ games back in the division.
Can they pull it together and make a run? It doesn't look promising.
"When you really look back the last month, the Phillies had one five-game winning streak. Everything else has been really a rocky road," Bottalico said. "When judging the Phillies right now, I don't know, 9½ games back in one of the worst divisions in baseball, which I think you agree with there too, it's not exactly what the doctor ordered.
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"I could see if you felt, if you saw a little glimmer of something. There's too many things that go wrong on this ballclub right now."
To see more of Bottalico's breakdown, watch the video above.