Pete Mackanin ends night with a team meeting

The meeting - the first of the Mackanin era -  lasted a few minutes. It followed a game with four errors, including a play in the eighth inning when Odubel Herrera tossed a ball into the stands after he thought he caught the third out.

Mackanin said he told his team that he was not pleased. He reminded them they were seven games above .500 on May 19. They have since went 6-20 to drop seven games below .500. It is the worst mark in baseball during that span.

"There was a few things that I had been thinking about and wanted to have a meeting about," Mackanin said. "Today was the culmination of those thoughts."

Tommy Joseph and Cody Asche said the meeting carried a positive tone. The Phillies have been outscored, 61-25, in their last eight games. A team meeting was hardly a surprise. Mackanin told his team to regroup and move forward. Go to bed and shake it off, he said.

"The point of the meeting was to pick up the tempo," Joseph said. "Just try to get the ball going in a positive manner. That was really it. We have to get going in a right direction and get behind each other. This isn't a game where you can have success and be selfish at the same time. We have to make sure that we're doing the right thing and that we are prepared. He's holding us accountable."