Bryce Harper gets last laugh in return to D.C. as Phillies best Nationals 8-2 - NBCSports
, striking out in each of his first two trips to the plate in his return to Nationals Park, his former home. The Phillies’ $330 million man had the last laugh, however. Harper finished 3-for-5, a triple shy of the cycle, with three RBI. The Phillies beat the Nationals 8-2, remaining baseball’s only unbeaten team at 4-0.
The contingent of Phillies fans that made the trip down to the nation’s capital drowned out boos by chanting, “We got Harper!” after the star’s sixth-inning single and his eighth-inning dinger. Nationals fans, some of whom defaced and destroyed their Harper jerseys, were left with nothing to do but sit in stunned silence.out-dueled Scherzer, tossing five shutout innings on 85 pitches, registering nine strikeouts while yielding only three hits a walk.
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