PHILADELPHIA —The Phillies keep on scoring runs. The Phillies keep on getting on base. The Phillies keep on getting a bunch of hits.

Know what they don’t keep on doing? Hitting home runs.

Welcome to the new look Phillies.

It’s the same collection of hitters, with a few exceptions, but it’s all of the sudden something different.

On Friday, the Phillies won for the 14th time in the month of August – the most of any team in the sport – when Alec Bohm hit a walk-off triple in the bottom of the 10th to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-6. It was their seventh win in a row. They closed within four games of the first place Atlanta Braves in the NL East.

And they’ve done this without relying on their bread and butter – the long ball.

In 19 games this month the Phillies have hit just 15 homers. Only two teams have fewer – the Cleveland Guardians and Los Angeles Angels.

However, the Phillies have 175 hits this month – only Tampa Bay and Boston have more. They’ve walked 95 times, most in the Majors.

And consequently, they’ve scored 104 runs, second-most in baseball behind only Boston.

Oh, and they’ve only struck out 113 times, the fewest of any team in baseball.

These are unfathomable numbers for a team that has made a name for itself as a team that hits a ton of homers and that’s how they have scored a predominance of their runs.

Not anymore.

“I definitely think that can translate to the postseason,” said Bohm, who is 26-for-70 this month (.371) with only one home run. “Obviously everybody knows when you get deep into the postseason, you are facing the best arms on the planet. I think being able to string stuff together and not just rely on a three-run homer, and kind of wait and hope for that. …

“Everybody on the whole has done a really good job … the team approach of trying to wear down the other guy and to really just try to put as much traffic as we can on the bases to allow someone to get a knock instead of everyone going up there trying to homer.”

What a novel concept.

It may have taken these Phillies a good while to figure it out, but now that they have, if they can maintain it, this lineup can be a wagon.

Just in the month of August, here are all of the regulars by OPS.

1. Alec Bohm – 1.030
2. Bryce Harper – .984
3. Bryson Stott – .899
4. Justin Crawford – .841
5. Luis Arraez -.789
6. Kyle Schwarber – .735
7. Brandon Marsh – .709
8. Trea Turner – .650
9. J.T. Realmuto – .507

Only Turner and Realmuto are underwater this month, and Realmuto had two doubles, a walk and a pair of RBIs in the win on Friday. Marsh had his struggles early in the month, but since the Field of Dreams game he’s 7 for 19 (.368).

The offense, in general is clicking. And it doesn’t require putting balls in the outfield seats to make it happen.

“Obviously, you want to hit some balls into the seats and get quick runs, but I don’t know if that’s a prerequisite to winning in the playoffs,” interim manager Don Mattingly said. “I just feel like if you watch it long enough, the teams that put pressure on you … keep having good at bats, it just kind of forces guys to make pitches and they’re going to make mistakes. The best of the best, they make mistakes, so you got to keep forcing that and just have good at bats.”

The outcome of this new approach for the Phillies is that they have scored four runs or more in 17 of the 19 games they have played in August. They are averaging 5.5 runs per game. Their biggest weakness is their bullpen, but they have enough good starting pitching that if they can keep up this kind of offense, they can overcome that weakness more often than not.

You’ve seen it several times this month. And with only 33 games to go until the postseason, the Phillies want to sustain it for another couple months.

“Yeah, man, I feel like this team, we’re never really out of the fight,” said Jesus Luzardo, who wasn’t as sharp as usual, but was picked up by his teammates at the plate. “We have a lot of fight and a lot of ability to claw back, no matter how deep the hole is. I think you saw that at the beginning of the year with how we started. …

“It’s going to be fun going down the stretch and trying to catch up to (Atlanta). I’m fully sold that this team can go as far as we want. We just need to play the brand of baseball that we know we can and that we’ve been playing and continue to scratch and claw every bit of the way.”

Even if it means less dingers and more singles.

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