No one’s quite sure what Bryce Harper was doing on Wednesday night.
Watching five consecutive pitches go by, Harper built a full-count by just standing limply at the plate.Milner’s final pitch of the bizarre at-bat was called a strike and the Phillies were dealt the first out of the inning in a game the Brewers eventually 5-3 at Citizens Bank Park.Milwaukee Brewers’ Hoby Milner pitches during the sixth inning of a baseball game.“After the first couple of pitches, it was apparent he was taking.
“That’s really all I can say. That’s what it looked like. So I just filled it up after that. I just tried to throw fastballs down the middle after that.”that Harper had a 101-degree fever on Tuesday night and lost his voice on Wednesday despite participating in infield practice. Brewers catcher William Contreras questioned if Harper was trying to limit damage on his elbow after returning from offseason Tommy John surgery.
“I was definitely a little confused,” catcher William Contreras said. “I think there might have been something with his elbow. “Coming off Tommy John, he knows he’s going to have some hard swings against someone like Milner but whatever it was, we know he’s a good hitter, so being able to get a free out like that, we’ll take it.”APHarper’s homer on July 15 against the Padres was his first since May 25.
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