Harper blasts two of the Phillies’ six home runs in a Game 3 rout that has Philadelphia on verge of returning to the NLCS and the Braves on the brink of elimination.
Bryce Harper watches the first of his two home runs — a three-run blast in the third — exit Citizens Bank Field on Wednesday night. PHILADELPHIA — Bryce Harper’s teammates told him what Atlanta Braves shortstop Orlando Arcia said. They relayed that reporters heard Arcia shouting “attaboy Harper” after the former MVP was doubled up. They looked at Harper, no stranger to taunts and jeers and everything that comes with being Bryce Harper for all these years, and asked him a question.
That one ball to which d’Arnaud was referring was a three-run blast in the third inning, part of a six-run explosion that was as memorable for the outburst as it was for the glare Harper shot at Arcia as he rounded second. The other ball Harper crushed came in the fifth, a towering flyball to dead center that flung skyward with a 35-degree launch angle that meant it took a lifetime to land behind the fence.
But not everyone enjoys these big moments — the postseason stage, the proving people wrong — quite like Harper. Once, in Miami, during his Nationals years, one of the few fans in the stands at Marlins Park that day yelled “overrated” at Harper as a pitch was delivered. Harper hit it out. On the road, they boo him, they yell things at him. At home, especially the home he found here in Philadelphia, they venerate him.
But the Phillies will have to face ace Spencer Strider in Game 4, something the Philadelphia crowd willed into existence as they chanted “we want Strider” Wednesday night. Harper, who called Strider “one of the best in baseball,” chuckled about that chant later.
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