Earlier this week, the Philadelphia Phillies clinched a wild-card spot, and since they are locked in because the No. 4 seed, their final common season video games are meaningless. They can not reinforce their postseason place (or harm it) any longer.
That does not imply their video games will lack pleasure, alternatively. Thursday evening towards the Pittsburgh Pirates (GameTracker), Bryce Harper used to be ejected for arguing a quite egregious check swing strike 3 name. He let 3rd base umpire Angel Hernandez have it, and, as he walked again to the dugout, Harper flung his helmet into the gang. Check it out:
Mr. Harper can be expecting a effective for that, perhaps even a suspension. A suspension would duvet common seasons video games most effective, it must be famous. He wouldn’t have to pass over video games within the postseason, now not {that a} long ban must be anticipated. One recreation, perhaps two.
For what it is price, a check swing isn’t outlined within the rulebook. A swing is outlined as an “attempt to strike the ball,” and that’s the reason it. All that belongings you listen about “breaking the plane” or “rolling your wrists” is made up. That’s now not within the rulebook. Hernandez decided Harper tried to strike the ball, so he known as it a check swing. To every his personal.
As for the helmet, a 10-year-old fan stuck it, and Harper signed it for him. Check it out:
That’s a excellent day on the ballpark for that child. Harper made a baseball fan — and a Bryce Harper fan — for existence.
Harper entered Thursday’s recreation with a .296/.402/.503 with 21 house runs in 124 video games since getting back from Tommy John surgical treatment. That features a .300/.415/.593 batting line in the second one part.