PHILADELPHIA – The D-backs struggled in most phases of the game in a 12-1 loss to the Phillies on Saturday afternoon at Citizens Bank Park.

Arizona needed left-hander Tommy Henry to work deep into the game because the bullpen has been taxed of late. But his work on the mound was brief, lasting 3 2/3 innings and allowing six runs.

Henry was in trouble from the start. He hit Kyle Schwarber with a pitch, then allowed a single to Trea Turner before Schwarber came home on a single by Bryce Harper. Turner later scored on a sacrifice fly by Nick Castellanos.

Henry followed that with an easy second inning, but it went back to being an outing to forget. In the third inning, Bryce Harper hit a two-run homer, while Alec Bohm hit a solo homer. Henry left the game after allowing an RBI double to Schwarber in the fourth.

Asked what were Henry's biggest issues, D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said, “Probably center-cut mistakes. Maybe some sequencing issues. It looked like Harper was sitting on a 0-0 breaking ball. It was a pitch that was handed to Schwarber two batters before.

“... You have to change up the sequencing. Many mental mistakes and you have to land pitches. Overall, the command wasn’t there and the Phillies were sitting back waiting for the mistakes he made.”

Henry, who saw his ERA go up 81 points to 7.04, said there is nothing wrong with him health-wise. It was 97 degrees at Citizens Bank Park, but he didn’t use the weather as an excuse. Henry can’t put a finger on why can't consistently get hitters out.

“I didn’t do a good job of executing pitches. I tried to compete out there, but the execution wasn’t at the level [I wanted],” he said. “Frankly, I didn’t do a good job of putting this team in a position to win. That’s really frustrating.”

Arizona then brought in right-hander Scott McGough, who had to take one for the team to eat up outs, allowing four runs in 2 1/3 innings. All four runs were driven in by Castellanos, including a two-run homer over the left-field wall in the fifth.

After using Thyago Vieira for one shutout inning, Lovullo decided to use catcher Tucker Barnhart for the final inning, and he allowed a two-run homer to David Dahl.

To make matters worse, the D-backs couldn’t touch Phillies right-hander Zack Wheeler, who pitched seven innings, allowed one run on two hits and struck out eight batters. In fact, Wheeler had a perfect game going until Christian Walker was hit by a pitch. Jake McCarthy followed and collected Arizona’s first hit with a single to left field. Walker would later score on a single by Barnhart.

"Obviously, you've got to throw in on Walker. He likes the ball in, he likes fastballs -- so I was just trying to get it in there, and unfortunately, it hit him,” Wheeler said. “I made a pitch to the next guy, McCarthy; the ball was high out of the zone and he did a nice job to get the base hit. But I just tried to limit the damage and not throw too many pitches and get tired."

For Lovullo, he didn’t mince words on how he felt about how the day went on Saturday afternoon.

“This was a grind. This was a tough day. I don’t like pitching position players at all, but sometimes you have to preserve and we have to fight another day, ” he said. “It was one of those days where it was just a couple of hits. A very stubborn pitcher we were facing and we never got anything going. You saw what happened on the mound. We made a lot of mistakes and [the Phillies] took advantage of it.”