PHILADELPHIA — Bryce Harper exhorted a sense of urgency from the visiting clubhouse at Citi Field Wednesday night, after the Phillies were swept out of Queens by the New York Mets.

From the home dugout at Citizens Bank Park on Thursday, Rob Thomson didn’t exactly push for the opposite. But he did urge calm for a team that had won six of seven games before traveling to New York.

The urgency and resilience to respond to the latest trip to the Flushing House of Horrors, Thomson said, will come from within the clubhouse. He’s confident it will develop without need for the manager to prod it into existence.

“It gets back to the experience of the players. It really does,” Thomson said before opening a four-game set with Atlanta. “And I think you come in here, for me and the coaching staff, it

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