"Jason Bay heard the boos and understands.

The struggles that seemed to be ebbing before the All-Star break have returned and Sunday they were coupled with a rare fielding blunder in the eighth that opened the door to a three-run inning for the Phillies.

"I just missed it," Bay, who went 0-for-4 with a walk, said of the fly ball that bounced off him. "It's one of those freak things. I feel like I play pretty good defense. ... I just missed it."

Bay also left three runners in scoring position in his first two at-bats, grounding into inning-ending outs with runners on second and third in the first and on first and second in the third. With the average now back down to .234 - and with Willie Harris and Scott Hairston swinging hot bats - is he concerned about losing playing time?"