![]() Besides setting his draft clock ahead one year, perhaps he’d finally get a chance to swing at a few cutters from pitchers willing to challenge him. Sam Thomas, Harper’s coach at Las Vegas High, was firmly behind the decision of his star player (and his star player’s advisers) to play ball against guys with facial hair. Though coaxed probably wasn’t the right word based on what happened in the eighth inning. It shows Bryce Harper coaxed a walk in his first junior college at-bat. Miech found his scorecard from opening night. CSN coach Tim Chambers granted him unfettered access to the team. The idea of Harper enrolling in junior college to expedite his major league draft status was so unheard of that Las Vegas author Rob Miech thought it would make a good book regardless of how the experiment panned out. But one never hears of kids playing college baseball before their prom.įor starters, JUCO pitchers know how to throw cutters. Sometimes one hears about piano prodigies playing Carnegie Hall at a precocious age. There was no place to park, because it was the night Bryce Harper made his college baseball debut. Arizona Western was the opponent that night, too. There was a carnival atmosphere at the CSN diamond in Henderson on Jan. It was the polar opposite from CSN’s season opener 10 years ago. There was little fanfare despite the Coyotes’ No. (Review-Journal file photo)Ĭollege of Southern Nevada opened its 2020 baseball season Saturday by splitting a doubleheader against Arizona Western. In the long run, whether Harper’s thumb needs surgery or not, it will heal and he’ll be OK.īut the fact that Harper would even wonder if he would have been better off getting hit in the face gives you an idea of how crushing an injury this is, both for him and the Phillies.Bryce Harper holds up his CSN jersey during a retirement ceremony for himself the top pick in draft last year, major leaguer Mike Dunn and former coach Tim Chambers Friday Januon the baseball field. Getting hit with a ball fired near triple digits could give you a concussion, it could blind you, there’s a whole lot of potentially awful consequences. Of course, just because Harper was hit in the face a year ago and walked away without a serious injury doesn’t mean that would be the case again. Harper actually told Coffey that he thinks he would have been better off being hit in the face, saying that “I can take 98 to the face but I can’t take 97 to the thumb.” ST3Mmxze2d- Phillies Nation June 26, 2022 This could be devastating for the Phillies season. President of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski wasn’t able to give a firm timetable on how long Harper will be out with this thumb fracture - as noted by Matt Gelb of The Athletic - but it figures to be significantly longer than the absence he had a year ago.īryce Harper is out of the game after getting hit in the hand. 634 OPS in the month, it didn’t prevent him from winning the NL MVP for the second time in his career. While Harper missed some time in early May of 2021 after being hit and posted just a. ![]() At that time, Harper texted Cabrera to tell him that he didn’t believe he was hit intentionally, and wanted to make sure that the young pitcher didn’t let it affect him mentally. Louis Cardinals’ reliever Génesis Cabrera, narrowly missing being hit in the eye. ![]() Last April, Harper was hit in the face by St. Keep throwing the inside fastball because it sets up the slider really good.” I wish him the best, I told him that as well. “It’s a bummer that it happened, but (Snell) is a great player and a great human being as well. It just got away from him,” Harper said of what he told Snell via text message, per Alex Coffey of The Philadelphia Inquirer. I know there was no ill will behind that at all. “I’ve been playing against Blake since we were 10 or 11 years old. (Jeff Robinson/Icon Sportswire)įor as angry as he initially was after being drilled by a 97 mph fastball Saturday, Bryce Harper made sure to reach out to San Diego Padres’ lefty Blake Snell after the game and let him know that there wasn’t bad blood between the two of them.ĭespite suffering a left thumb fracture that will likely end Harper’s quest to win back-to-back National League MVPs, he says he knows Snell didn’t intend to hit him. Bryce Harper suffered an injury Saturday evening.
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