Daily News | Phillies drop struggling Trea Turner to seventh in the batting order vs. Pirates
Yong Kim / Staff Photographer / Yong Kim / Staff PhotographerPITTSBURGH — After yet another rough night at the plate Friday — 0-for-5, including a strikeout and grounding into a double play — Trea Turner met withThe time had come, Thomson explained, to move Turner down in the order. The struggling shortstop didn’t object. And so, when the Phillies faced the Pirates on Saturday night, Turner batted seventh for the first time since July 25, 2018, with the Washington Nationals.
The Phillies keep waiting for Turner to get hot. Instead, he was batting .242 with a .673 OPS. He has never finished a full season below .271 and .760., before the Phillies’ day off Thursday, would jumpstart him at the plate. It didn’t work. “That was part of the conversation, really,” Thomson said. “While you’re going through this [slump] and we’re correcting these things, just make sure that it doesn’t affect your defense or it doesn’t affect your aggressiveness on the bases.”Could the solution to the Phillies’ need for a righty-hitting left fielder come from the ... Mets?
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