PHOENIX — So long as this air-conditioned ballpark remains in use and the Philadelphia Phillies are visiting, there will be certain nightmares when the bullpen door opens in right field. That’s how it is. Chase Field is where a great Phillies team began to teeter in 2023. It’s been so long, but in every October since, the bullpen has failed the Phillies.It looms again in 2026 because, now, it is September, and the Phillies do not have the clearest plan for how they will get the ball from their starting pitcher to their star closer.“This is who we are at this point,” interim manager Don Mattingly said after a stress-inducing 2-1 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks. “So, we’ll see.”That bullpen door swung open again in the sixth inning Monday night, no outs, runners on first and second. In October 2023, Alex McFarlane was so far from his dream. He had just undergone Tommy John surgery when the Phillies stumbled in the National League Championship Series. He is something fresh, a reliever who has navigated his first 10 innings in the majors almost unscathed. He can throw a baseball 102 mph. He is, right now, a glimmer of hope.He fell behind the first hitter, Lars Nootbaar, and challenged him with a fastball. Nootbaar flied out. He fell behind the second hitter, Nolan Arenado, and flung a full-count sweeping slider right down the middle that froze everyone. He jumped ahead of the third hitter, Tim Tawa, and tricked him into swinging at a slider below the zone that Tawa bounced to third base.