He doesn't know when, but Bryce Harper is confident he'll return to the Phillies' lineup at some point this season.
“I don’t want to give anybody a timetable because I don’t know,” Harper said. “I don’t think that’s fair to you guys or my teammates or anybody else. If I knew a specific date that I’d be back, I’d tell you.Harper suffered the injury when he was hit by a pitch from San Diego’s Blake Snell on June 25.
Philadelphia-based surgeon Pedro Beredjiklian performed the surgery on Harper. Earlier in June, “Dr. B,” as Harper called him, performed surgery on Jean Segura, who is out with a broken right index finger and hopes to return in September. Before the broken thumb, Harper had played the better part of three months with a ligament tear in his right elbow. He still has that injury but will be able to play through it once his thumb heals. He continues to receive treatment on the injured elbow and will have an ultrasound to gauge healing in a couple of weeks. It’s still not clear if he will require offseason surgery on the elbow.
“I hate sitting there watching, but it’s been a lot of fun seeing what these guys are doing,” he said. He mentioned the hot bats of Kyle Schwarber and Rhys Hoskins, the starting pitching and the bullpen, which, to use his word, has been “electric.”
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