MIAMI – On July 16, 2022, right-hander Max Meyer made his big-league debut for the Miami Marlins. His manager that day was Don Mattingly. His opponent was the Phillies. Meyer was tagged for five runs in 5 1/3 innings that day – J.T. Realmuto and Rhys Hoskins homered – and the Phillies laid a 10-0 whooping on the Marlins. Nearly four years later, Mattingly is managing the Phillies and Meyer, the third overall pick in the 2020 draft, is getting his career back on track after three injury-plagued seasons. In a bit of a full circle moment, Meyer pitched brilliantly against the Phillies on Saturday afternoon. The Phils had just one hit – a single by late lineup addition Garrett Stubbs — in a 4-0 loss to the Marlins. Meyer pitched a career-high seven innings. He allowed just one hit, one walk and struck out seven. “He kept us off balance,” Mattingly said. “He was the (Marlins’) first pick when I was here. He’s got good stuff and he’s competitive. That’s a good combination.” While Meyer shined, Phillies rookie Andrew Painter was bruised for seven hits and three runs in five innings. Painter had control issues. Two of his three walks came with the bases loaded in the third inning. He walked Augustin Ramirez on a full-count sinker and Connor Norby on a 3-1 sweeper. “That’s a pitch I usually land for a strike,” Painter said of the sweeper to Norby. “I just didn’t execute it.” An inning earlier, Painter was faced with a bases-loaded situation and got a pop out and a strikeout to escape damage. “Being in that situation twice, it’s hard to expect to get out of it both times,” Painter said. “I have to limit those opportunities for them. The process there has to start earlier with me limiting baserunners.” The Phillies have lost in each of Painter’s last four outings. He has allowed 16 hits and five walks in 10 2/3 innings over his last starts. He has a 5.28 ERA in 29 innings of work spread over five starts and a five-inning relief appearance. Six of the hits that Painter allowed Saturday were singles. The seventh was a solo homer by Xavier Edwards in the fifth. Painter left trailing, 3-0. That was not exactly an insurmountable deficit. On this day, however, it was. Meyer had five 1-2-3 innings. The Phillies never got a runner to second base. Stubbs provided the Phils’ only hit with a single to right-center in the third. He was quickly erased in a double play. At 103.5 mph, Stubbs’ single was the hardest-hit ball by either team in the game. “In general, (Painter) was pretty good,” Mattingly said. “He got a little behind in some counts. But overall, if he goes out there and gives us that type of outing, you’re in the ballgame.” That’s provided the team behind him hits. Phillies hitters struck out 10 times. Kyle Schwarber struck out three times. Halfway through the four-game series, he has struck out eight straight times. “Maybe he’s not seeing the ball good here,” Mattingly said. “He comes out of that doubleheader in Philly kind of on fire and they’ve kind of neutralized him here. It looks like he’s not seeing the ball well. But he’s not a guy you really worry about unless it gets extended.” The loss snapped a four-game win streak for the Phillies and was their first since Mattingly took over as manager on Tuesday. Jesus Luzardo (2-3, 5.50) and Chris Paddock (0-4, 6.11) are the pitchers on Sunday afternoon. ...read more read less