Philadelphia Phillies slugger Bryce Harper hit but some other postseason home run within the first inning of NLCS Game 1 on Monday evening towards Arizona Diamondbacks’ ace Zac Gallen. As Harper crossed home plate after his home run trot within the eventual 5-3 win, he flashed the quantity 31.
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Nice contact. That could be a 31 for his thirty first birthday, which fell the similar day (Oct. 16) as Game 1 of the NLCS on Monday.
“Sometimes I just do stuff, and that felt right — step on home plate and do that,” Harper told reporters after the win. “I just thought about it as I was running around third base.”
Harper has lengthy had an aptitude for the dramatic. He set a document with 5 Opening Day home runs sooner than he grew to become 25 years outdated. He’s additionally clubbed 15 home runs in 43 occupation playoff video games.
This sport Monday marked the primary time he ever performed on his birthday and he went deep in his first at-bat. Harper had performed 42 occupation postseason video games sooner than Monday however maximum of them had been previous in October. Before creating a run to the World Series with the Phillies final 12 months, Harper had by no means performed later than Oct. 13.
His home run was once his tenth in a Phillies uniform within the playoffs, striking him only one at the back of Jayson Werth for the franchise document within the postseason. It was once additionally a part of an early home run barrage towards Gallen because the Phillies stormed to the lead.
In his 2nd at-bat, Harper dialed it again a bit of. His 111.6 mph unmarried scored Trea Turner. He ended the sport 2 for three with two RBIs. Harper has now homered in 9 other playoff video games with the Phillies. They have received all 9 of them.