Girardi doubles down on support of Neris

Run it back.

Do it again.

No retreat. No apologies. No Plan B.

Such was Joe Girardi’s attitude Sunday, a short night after closer Hector Neris wasted a two-out, two-run lead in the ninth inning of a game the Phillies would lose, 8-7, in Atlanta.

Though the manager was predictably supportive of Neris and his leaky bullpen in the immediate aftermath of the sorry ending to a five-game winning streak, there seemed a chance he would begin to express some doubts a day later.

As if.

“If you look at Hector’s numbers before last night, they’re pretty darn good,” Girardi said. “We can make a lot of one outing. I know he’s lost some games, but they have been tie games with a runner on second with nobody out as well.

“I haven’t made any changes. I haven’t thought about making changes.”

Neris is 1-3 with two blown saves, a 4.54 ERA and a 19-to-6 strikeout to walk ratio. Saturday, he allowed Pablo Sandoval to crush a two-out pinch home run to force overtime. A week earlier, he surrendered a goahead home run to the Mets’ Michael Conforto in the ninth. Good numbers? “Hector made a bad pitch last night,” Girardi said. “That could happen in the seventh inning, too. Or the eighth. So, really, it comes down to execution.”

By Girardi’s logic, if Neris is going to make a bad pitch anyway, there’s no sense disrupting the rest of his bullpen rotation. He won’t even formally consider a by-committee situation, even though the Phillies have had some success with that on days when Neris has been unavailable.