PHOENIX -- There has been tremendous optimism surrounding the D-backs these days. They had won five straight and six of seven, with their young players running the bases with abandon and tracking down fly balls in every corner of the outfield.

Monday brought the highly anticipated promotion of their top prospect, outfielder Corbin Carroll, whom MLB Pipeline ranked as the No. 3 prospect in all of baseball, and that night they rallied from a seven-run deficit to beat the Phillies.

There was also some realism thrown into the mix by GM Mike Hazen when he announced the team was picking up manager Torey Lovullo's contract option for 2023.

"We have a lot of work to do," Hazen said. "We've kind of climbed out of the gutter, so to speak, but the goal here isn't to finish anywhere other than in the playoffs."

So yes, while there is good reason for optimism at the D-backs direction there will also be forgettable nights like Wednesday when rookie left-hander Tommy Henry got roughed up by the Phillies, who avoided a sweep with an 18-2 win.

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"Just a clunker," Lovullo said. "This is a total clunker and we've got to understand the mistakes we made and take advantage of the time where we can go out there and keep teaching and showing these players where they need to improve. There were plenty of mistakes today. So we'll go over what happened a little bit as a staff and we'll march it forward with these guys. But I don't want them to dwell on this one. You know, we need to spit it out. We've been playing good baseball, and these things happen in this game. We've been on both sides of it this year."

For Henry, it was a grind from the first inning when he managed to somehow hold the Phillies to just one run in the frame despite allowing two hits, issuing a walk and having a pair of errors made behind him.

Pitching coach Brent Strom talked to Henry after that top of the first and told him that he should try to take the momentum from working out of that jam and use it going forward.

It worked in a 1-2-3 second, but then the Phillies began to take command of the game. Henry allowed seven runs in four-plus innings.

"I didn't have the best stuff, clearly, [or my] best command," said Henry, who walked four. "You know, I tried to try to make some adjustments to try to settle in and sometimes it doesn't go your way. A lot of things that I could have controlled and done better and we'll work on in the days coming. But sometimes that just happens."

Among the things that Henry will want to correct are the fastball command, first-pitch strikes and getting the leadoff hitter out, something he failed to do in three of his four-plus innings.

"I think I was being a little too fine, probably," Henry said of his first pitches to hitters. "And that's more of a mental adjustment than a physical adjustment. You've just got to make the choice to be more aggressive to the middle part of the plate and let hitters get themselves out. So yeah, that will be an adjustment for sure. That's probably priority A."

As for turning the page quickly, catcher Cooper Hummel said not to worry. In fact, he made a bold prediction about his team, which is now 61-68 and faces a tough September/October schedule loaded with teams in playoff contention.

"We know that we're going to come back tomorrow and be the same team we were the last week and a half," Hummel said. "We'll be fine. I'm not worried about it. I've said it before: We're going to be a .500 ballclub at least, by the end of the year. So we're going to make a push. We're going to do what we need to do. Boys are all in it."