ATLANTA — The Phillies moved struggling Alec Bohm down three spots in the lineup for Thursday's series finale at Truist Park.
Bohm hit seventh against Braves right-hander Spencer Schwellenbach.
- Kyle Schwarber, DH (L)
- Trea Turner, SS
- Bryce Harper, 1B (L)
- Nick Castellanos, RF
- Max Kepler, LF (L)
- J.T. Realmuto, C
- Alec Bohm, 3B
- Bryson Stott, 2B (L)
- Brandon Marsh, CF (L)
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"We'll see," manager Rob Thomson said. "I'm just trying to take a little heat off of Bohmer and Casty's swinging the bat good. That's really what it comes down to."
"(He's) probably disappointed. He likes hitting where he's hitting. But I think he also realizes that he's not swinging the bat the way he normally does."
Bohm went 0-for-5 with four strikeouts in Wednesday's one-run win. He went 0-for-5 again in Thursday's extra-inning loss. He lined out sharply twice, grounded out to first base, grounded into a 1-6-3 double play and flied out to shallow center with runners on the corners in the 11th inning, not deep enough to bring across the go-ahead run with one out.
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Bohm is 4-for-40 (.100) without a walk or extra-base hit in his last nine games. He hit a two-run double in extra innings in the Phillies' Opening Day win in D.C. but has gone 0-for-13 with runners in scoring position since.
Part of it has been bad luck. Wednesday was his worst night of the season but Bohm actually has a career-high rate of hard-hit balls and barrels so far. He's lined out or flied out to deep center and right-center 10 times — nearly one-fifth of his plate appearances. If even three of those balls fell in, he'd be hitting 60 points higher.
Still, it's not much solace during a 4-for-40.
"I think a lot of hitters get into that at times where they're hitting the ball hard and not getting any results and then they start tweaking things because they think they're not doing something right," Thomson said. "I'm not saying that's what he's doing but that's what happens. You have to look at it realistically and know that things are good, it's just bad luck right now.
"Just reminding him that he was an All-Star last year with 97 RBIs and a high batting average. It's not like you want to move guys around but sometimes there's a need for it and sometimes it helps the guy to just kind of relax and put himself on auto-pilot and just go play."
Castellanos had been hitting since Opening Day, which was the other part of the lineup switch. He entered the night batting .308/.372/.538 but had one of the worst games of his career on Thursday, going 0-for-5 with five strikeouts.
The Phillies took off in the wee hours of the morning Friday for a 90-minute flight to St. Louis. Their finale in Atlanta was delayed by 2 hours and 45 minutes, the last thing any team wants on getaway day.