Spike worried that Phillies won't be able to get back to team they were to start season

As the Phillies get set for what is sure to be a playoff atmosphere against the Yankees at CBP on Monday night, Spike Eskin wonders when the Phils will get back to looking like they are a team ready for real postseason action.

Or, more concurringly, whether they will get back to that in time.

“I’m sick of watching what I have watched for the last six weeks,” Spike said. “My concern, lower than panic and higher than ‘everything will be okay,’ is that that moment where it switches back, that we don’t get that moment. What was so good about the Phillies earlier in the year was not about outlier performances from anybody on the team. Everybody aside from Ranger has been playing within their capabilities. There is nobody who has had a year that feels like an outlier. It felt like someone else did it every night.

“They’ve gone from a team that I felt like was never out of a game to when it starts…they’re never in it.”

Spike’s confidence in the team is down after four straight series losses and nearly six weeks of looking far inferior to the team that stormed out to the best record in baseball to begin the year. It hasn’t resulted in losing any ground in the NL East, but it has Spike worried that there is a chance this team doesn’t get back to the team it was in April and May.

“Is it gonna be Alvarado who blows it? Is someone gonna get picked off? Is someone gonna boot a ground ball? Are we gonna have three straight bad at-bats?” Spike said. “I look at the heart of the order coming up in an inning when we need it, and I don’t have the confidence that they’re gonna do it.”

Safe to say Ike didn’t agree with Spike’s level of concern, and that while some fans had to “eat crow” in regards to their declarations about this being the best Phillies team ever, they still have the pieces in place to win a title.

“Toughen up, man. Toughen up. Simple as that,” Ike said. “You shouldn’t be worried…these guys are healthy right now. Besides Ranger…they’re gonna fight their way through this.”