Why Don Mattingly is confident Alec Bohm will eventually hit

Alec Bohm is sitting on Thursday amid an extended slump. (Madeline Ressler/Phillies Nation)

PHILADELPHIA — Alec Bohm is not in the Phillies’ starting lineup for Thursday night’s series finale against the Athletics.

Don Mattingly’s lineup has Edmundo Sosa batting seventh and playing third base against right-handed starter J.T. Ginn. Sosa went 2-for-4 with a two-run go-ahead single in the bottom of the eighth inning of a 6-3 win. In 53 plate appearances, Sosa is batting .294...