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Call Bryce Harper Overrated At Your Own Peril
Bryce Harper hit the dick off two baseballs during yesterday’s 6-5 win over the Reds, and the second dinger was a particular source of embarrassment for one of the Cincinnati fans in attendance....

Bryce Harper Forced Don Mattingly Into Clowning Himself
The Marlins are a cynical disaster of a franchise with no apparent interest in winning baseball games, and the obviousness of all that has put the actual members of the team in a tough spot. The players on the Marlins still have to go out and play 162 games and pretend like the reason for them takin...

Bryce Harper Will Cruelly Reclaim His Outfield Spot From Young Victor Robles
The Washington Post reported today that Bryce Harper will be activated Monday after missing 40 games due to an injured WHOA HEY VICTOR ROBLES DID SOMETHING....

Bryce Harper, What The Hell???
Bryce Harper’s hair has already generated much more discourse than any baseball player’s hair reasonably should. That is, in all likelihood, about to get much worse. He posted the following picture on his Instagram story this evening during the Nationals’ game against the Marlins: ...

Bryce Harper's Scary Knee Injury Diagnosed As A "Significant" Bone Bruise
Here’s a swerving, M. Night Shyamalan-esque update on Bryce Harper’s knee injury, sustained Saturday night in Washington’s win over the Giants:...

Bryce Harper Leaves Rainy Nats Game With Apparent Knee Injury
First pitch in Washington was delayed three hours Saturday night and there was still a steady drizzle when the game got underway. While attempting to run out a ground ball in the first inning, Bryce Harper hit first base awkwardly and slipped on the slick surface. He immediately fell to the ground c...

The Marlins Lost Because They Pitched To Bryce Harper On Accident
The Marlins lost 3-2 to the Nationals last night after surrendering a 2-1 lead in the sixth when Bryce Harper banged an RBI double off the right-field wall. Getting beat by a player as good as Harper isn’t anything to be ashamed of, except when he was never supposed to be given the chance in the fir...

Nationals Sock Five Goddamn Dingers In Six At-Bats
It’s a good day to be a Nationals fan and a very, very bad day to be a Brewers pitcher. The Nationals hit eight home runs in their first four innings today; five of those home runs were off Michael Blazek in the span of six at-bats in the bottom of the third....

Bryce Harper Sent A Poor, Innocent Baseball To Hell
If you are a baseball, I urge you to look away from this video of Bryce Harper mashing the absolute bejeezus out of one of your kin:...

Bryce Harper Has An Idea To Spice Up The All-Star Game
Tonight will be the first All-Star Game in 14 years that won’t decide home-field advantage for the World Series (thank goodness), and with the freedom of again having a true exhibition, MLB has the opportunity to get experimental, if it wants. Bryce Harper has a plan:...

Javier Báez Robs Bryce Harper With Perfect Leaping Grab
Javier Báez showed off his range in the third inning against the Nationals tonight, leaping to snare a ball that seemingly was all but guaranteed to find the gap and become a hit. That he made it look so easy is just testament to how smooth a fielder he is: ...

MLB Puts Hunter Strickland's Brawl-Worn Jersey Up For Auction, Then Backs Off
A few weeks after suspending Hunter Strickland six games for his brawl with Bryce Harper, MLB tried to directly spin a profit from the fight—selling off his game-worn jersey on the league’s official online auction site, advertising the fact that he was ejected while wearing it. And then a few hours ...

MLB Suspends Bryce Harper And Hunter Strickland For Entertaining Brawl
After a fight like the one that Bryce Harper and Hunter Strickland kicked off this weekend, a raft of suspensions was inevitable. MLB announced this evening that Harper would be suspended for four games and Hunter Strickland will have to sit out six. Both players will appeal the decisions and both r...

Let Us Look At Photos Of The Giants And Nationals Punching Each Other
Basebrawls are great when no one gets hurt. Yesterday’s Giants-Nationals throwdown—thanks to Hunter Strickland having a redder ass than a baboon—was a good one, with actual punches landed and enough flying hair to make you wonder if this wasn’t viral shampoo advertising. Let’s relive....

What's Hunter Strickland's Deal?
It’s not a hard and fast rule, but you can usually tell just how selfish and stupid a pitcher’s decision to throw at a batter is by looking at his catcher. Go back to yesterday’s boxing match between Bryce Harper and Hunter Strickland, and notice how Buster Posey had no desire to step out from behin...

Multiple Ejections After Massive Brawl Between Giants And Nationals
Hunter Strickland drilled Bryce Harper with an eighth-inning pitch that sparked a brouhaha between the Giants and Nationals today in San Francisco....

Nationals, Bryce Harper Avoid Arbitration With Record $21 Million Deal For 2018
The Nationals have avoided arbitration with superstar Bryce Harper for next year, agreeing to terms of $21.625 million for the 2018 season—the right fielder’s last year guaranteed in Washington before he hits free agency....

Bryce Harper Sent A Dinger To The Forest
Bryce Harper sent a Jordan Lyles fastball to the tree-laden Rockies bullpen this afternoon. He stood and admired the shot for a second, as he should have. There’s no choice but to marvel at a perfect bat-on-ball THWACK like this one....

Philly Radio Station Asks If Bryce Harper Would Help The Phillies
Bryce Harper hit a pair of home runs yesterday, the second a walk-off shot lifting the Nationals to a 6-4 win over the Phillies. Harper has hit 18 of his 125 career homers against the Phillies—more than he’s hit against any team other than the Marlins....