WATCH: Bryce Harper steals home, doesn’t get credit due to catchers interference

BRYCE HARPER – This Phillies-Red Sox series has completely jumped the shark. Less than 24 hours after Edmundo Sosa won a game on walk-off catcher’s interference, something that hadn’t happened since 1971, Bryce Harper just tried to one-up the chaos by stealing home.

Bryce Harper steals home, doesn’t get credit due to catchers interference

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Somehow, Bryce Harper didn’t get credit for the robbery

Harper broke for home before the pitch was even thrown. He was in there clean, safe by a mile. The crowd at Citizens Bank Park went nuts but at the end of the play, it was ultimately ruled catchers inference because Boston catcher Carlos Narváez stepped into the batter’s box before the pitch crossed home plate

Harper still scored, but not on the steal. The run counted, but not the history. It’s like stealing a car and then being told the keys were in it and the door was unlocked, so technically you didn’t “steal” it.

You just… borrowed it aggressively.

So now we’ve got this absolutely wild back-to-back in Citizens Bank Park:

• Monday night: Phillies win on a walk-off catcher’s interference.
• Tuesday night: Bryce Harper steals home, only to have it wiped out… by catcher’s interference.

If it weren’t for Narváez stepping in too soon, that would’ve been the first straight steal of home by a Phillies player since Jason Michaels in 2003. Instead, it’s just another weird footnote in a series that’s quickly becoming one of the strangest in recent memory.

• Edmundo Sosa walked it off without swinging.
• Bryce Harper stole home and somehow didn’t get credit.
• Carlos Narváez is probably having the worst 24 hours of his baseball life.

Baseball is weird. Bryce Harper is a menace and if the Phillies do anything normal for the rest of this series, it will be a disappointment.

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