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JEFF NEIBURG, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Phillies manager Pete Mackanin took a bit longer than usual coming to the podium following Thursday night's 13-2 blowout loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.
He was having a team meeting, the contents of which will remain behind those closed doors.
The Phillies were outscored 31-7 in three consecutive losses to the Blue Jays and they have lost 20 of their last 26 games. They committed four errors Thursday night.
"I let them know I wasn't pleased," Mackanin said.
Aaron Nola followed up his shortest career outing in his last start with an even shorter one Thursday. The Phillies' ace lasted just three innings plus four batters. He allowed eight hits and eight runs (six earned) to go with three walks and five strikeouts. He's allowed 15 hits in his last 6 2/3 innings pitched.
"It's tough for the team when I can't get out of the fourth inning," Nola (5-6) said. "It's unacceptable from my part. I feel like it's a letdown to the team. It's unacceptable for me to go that short in a game. My job is to go deep into a game and save the bullpen, and keep the game as close as I can."
Toronto had season-highs in hits (17) and home runs (five). They hit 11 home runs over the last three games.
Edwin Encarnacion hit his sixth home run in as many games and Kevin Pillar homered twice.
"We're hot. We're playing good baseball right now," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said.
Toronto led 8-0 after four innings.
J.A. Happ (8-3), who improved to 4-0 against his former team, tossed seven innings. He allowed one unearned run, three hits and struck out five.
"There's not a lot of good to look at, but a lot of bad," Mackanin said of his team's effort.
STANDINGS
The Phillies (30-37) are a season-high seven games under .500. The Blue Jays (38-31) won their seventh series in their last nine. They are 19-8 since May 19, the second-highest winning percentage over that span behind Texas.
EARLY EXIT
Toronto RF Jose Bautista was removed from the game in the bottom of the seventh inning after colliding with the outfield wall on a Cameron Rupp double. Bautista, who was 1 for 4 with an RBI, limped off the field with the help of a trainer. He is listed as "day-to-day" with left big toe soreness. Precautionary X-rays were to be taken.
SUSPENDED
Phillies pitcher Alec Asher was suspended 80 games Thursday after testing positive for PEDs. Asher, 24, was on the Triple-A DL rehabbing a shin fracture at the time of his suspension. Asher, ranked No. 26 in the Philadelphia system, according to MLB.com, is the second pitcher in the Phillies organization to receive an 80-game suspension for PED use in 2016. The other, Daniel Stumpf, was with the big club when he was suspended on April 14. Each tested positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, an anabolic steroid.
STREAKING
Tommy Joseph, the Phillies' new "everyday" first baseman with Ryan Howard relegated to mostly a bench role, snapped an 0-for-17 skid with a second-inning double.
Blue Jays 3B Josh Donaldson extended his on-base streak to 21 games with his first-inning single. Minnesota 1B Joe Mauer entered Thursday with the longest active on-base streak (26) in the majors.
UP NEXT
RHP Aaron Sanchez (6-1, 3.38 ERA) takes the mound Fridayfor Toronto in Baltimore against RHP Mike Wright (3-3, 5.31). Philadelphia starts a four-game series with Arizona on Friday, sending LHP Adam Morgan (1-5, 6.33) against LHP Robbie Ray (3-5, 4.57).
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