Bryce Harper was one of many Phillies who answered the challenge issued by the Braves and Orlando Arcia.
You don’t mockingly say atta-boy to Bryce Harper.What was Orlando Arcia thinking? The most obvious answer is that he wasn’t. He had no reason to. No reason to think. No reason to fear. No reason to think that an opponent might have something in him that is best left untapped. You can forgive Arcia for his ignorance of this breed of competitor. He is, after all, a Brave.
That’s the difference between these two teams, isn’t it? One of them has that thing, and one of them doesn’t. We saw it last postseason and we saw it in Game 1 and we sure as heck saw it at Citizens Bank Park on Wednesday, when Harper and the Phillies spent nine innings showing the Braves exactly how a real team responds when it gets punched in the mouth.
If you thought you couldn’t possibly like the swagger of this team anymore, well, you certainly couldn’t have envisioned the absolute humiliation they inflicted on the Braves inThis was bigger than Harper. It was bigger than the home run that he nearly put onto Hartranft Street in the third inning. It was bigger than he one he knocked into the center field bushes to lead off the fourth.
Castellanos made sure the stress was short-lived, leading off the bottom of the third with a towering home run to left field on a 1-0 sinker off of Bryce Elder. From there, the floodgates opened. Harper’s three-run home run in the third inning narrowly missed the third deck, a loud, towering shot that was part of a six-run inning that all but ended the Braves’ hopes.
The night was all about Harper. Let’s make that clear. This was some Michael Jordan stuff. It was Tom Brady with two minutes left. There aren’t a ton of other examples to give because guys like Harper are incredibly rare. The guy is so locked in that it was fair to wonder whether he was even aware of the reports that Arcia had snickered at Harper’s base-running gaffe that resulted in the double play that ended Game 2.
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