Editing Philadelphia Phillies (section)

===Years of struggle (1985–1991)===
The [[1985 Philadelphia Phillies season|1985 season]] was the first time the team finished below .500 since 1974. The team had some success in [[1986 Philadelphia Phillies season|1986]] despite having released star pitcher Steve Carlton due to injuries. They went on to finish second in the division with a record of 86–75. Mike Schmidt led the National League in home runs and runs batted in that year and also won his third National League Most Valuable Player award, sixth Silver Slugger award and tenth Gold Glove.

In [[1987 Philadelphia Phillies season|1987]], closer [[Steve Bedrosian]] was named the NL Cy Young Award winner. 

Injuries caused Mike Schmidt to miss most of the [[1988 Philadelphia Phillies season|1988 season]] and he retired from baseball after playing in only 42 games in [[1989 Philadelphia Phillies season|1989]], thus, the last member of the 1980 championship team was gone.

In [[1990 Philadelphia Phillies season|1990]], [[Terry Mulholland]] lost a perfect game in the seventh inning when a San Francisco Giants' batter reached base on a throwing error. The next batter grounded into a double play. Thus, Mulholland faced the perfect-game maximum of 27 batters, but did not qualify for a perfect game. He was credited, however, with a no-hitter.<ref>See: [[Perfect game (baseball)|Perfect game]].</ref> 

During this time, the Phillies often struggled to attract more than 25,000 people to Veterans Stadium, the biggest in the National League at the time (at over 62,000 seats). Even crowds of 40,000 were swallowed up by the cavernous environment.