The Phillies got swept by the Pirates for their ninth loss in 10 games. Time for a team meeting? ‘We’ll see.’

PITTSBURGH — Last August, in the throes of a four-game losing streak and an 8-18 stretch that threatened to sink the season, the Phillies held a rare team meeting before a midweek home game.

Has the time come to do it again?

“We’ll see,” manager Rob Thomson said.

If the Phillies do shut the clubhouse doors and talk it out, it won’t be because they got shut down for 7⅔ innings Sunday by indomitable Paul Skenes in a 2-1 loss to the Pirates, or even because they got swept in Pittsburgh for the first time in 10 years — since June 12-14, 2015, to be precise.

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No, if it’s time for a team meeting, it’s because this feels like a tipping point. The Phillies chased an 11-1 roll last month with a 1-9 rut, including five losses in a row to equal their longest skid of the season. They’re 37-28 and went from being tied for the division lead on May 31 to 4½ games behind the first-place Mets.

They also lost Bryce Harper, for at least another week and almost certainly for longer given that the recurrence of last year’s right wrist injury has left him feeling like he “can’t really function on a baseball field.”

So? Time for an intervention?

“If our veterans think it’s time for a huge team blowout meeting, it’ll happen,” second baseman Bryson Stott said. “The easiest thing is to say it’s a long season. But we’re better than what we’ve been playing like, and we need to start doing that.”

The Phillies haven’t had Harper for eight of the last 11 games. Without him, they’ve gone 1-7 and scored a total of 25 runs. They’re batting .198 (51-for-258) and reached base at a .260 clip.

If ever there was actually a good time to face Skenes, then, this was decidedly not it.

Skenes continued his Cy Young Award march by holding the Phillies to two hits (both in the third inning), giving up one unearned run, and lowering his ERA to 1.88. And when Pirates interim manager Don Kelly pulled him at 97 pitches — the last registering 97 mph — with two out in the eighth inning, boos cascaded upon him.

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But this wasn’t merely about Skenes doing to the Phillies what he does to everybody.

Cristopher Sánchez went toe-to-toe with Skenes, working into the eighth inning and pitching as well as he has all season. But he took a tough-luck loss after Oneil Cruz walked against Sánchez in the eighth, stole second, and scored on Andrew McCutchen’s broken-bat flare against Orion Kerkering.

The Phillies weren’t able to beat even the rain in western Pennsylvania, with the game ending in a downpour. And about that ending: With the tying and go-ahead runs on base against Pirates reliever Braxton Ashcraft, Alec Bohm grounded into a game-ending double play.

“I think the guys are trying to do a little bit too much right now and take it upon themselves, and they can’t do that,” Thomson said. “You’ve got to pass the baton. You’ve got to have good at-bats, move runners, do little things to make things happen, and score some runs. We’re just not doing that right now.”

It’s a lineup-wide epidemic. Some recent numbers:

And Harper isn’t riding to the rescue.

“He’s Bryce Harper, and you’re not going to try to step up and be Bryce Harper,” Stott said. “But yeah, I think it’s a little bit of trying too hard or coming out of approaches. I think definitely there’s some of that a little bit.

“It’s frustrating for sure. Just the hitters that we have and the outings we’re getting from the pitchers, I feel like we’re letting them down. We’ve had some chances and haven’t got it done.”

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Thomson is known for his evenhandedness in managing a lineup when the offense is struggling.

Changes may be coming.

“We’ll see,” Thomson said, again. “I’ve been thinking about some different things, so we’ll see what happens.”

One possibility: Trea Turner atop the order against right-handed starters, in addition to lefties, to alleviate pressure on Stott. It’s a familiar-looking slump for Stott, who said he’s overthinking how pitchers are tending to attack him. It was a problem for him last year.

“I think I’m just a little in between pitches,” he said, “hitting the fastball good again and maybe sometimes just going up there and second-guessing instead of just reacting like I was early. I felt a lot better in the last couple of days, and I don’t have the results to show for it.”

Lately, few Phillies hitters do.

Maybe it’s time to talk about it.

“We all naturally talk about things, right?” Schwarber said. “I think that’s one of the great things about Thoms is that he trusts the locker room to handle itself and make sure we’re policing whatever we need to do. I don’t think it’s for a lack of effort. It’s not like it’s mental mistake after mental mistake. It’s just the game of baseball.

“At the end of the day, I think it’s just us going out there competing and playing our brand. I think once we get this skid over with and get back to playing our brand of baseball, I think you’ll see some really good results.”