Elite: Bryce Harper is on another planet right now as the Phillies roll into a pivotal month of September
Bryce Harper is on another planet right now. He went 4-for-4 with a walk in Tuesday’s 7-1 beatdown of the Diamondbacks, shoving his OPS up to .901 and stretching his career-high on-base streak to a filthy 34 games.
This is the ELITE version of Bryce Harper, the one that anchors the whole operation, and he’s showing up right as the calendar turns and the games start to actually mean something.
This road trip has been a straight-up massacre. Harper is hitting .483 on the trip with 15 knocks in 31 at-bats. Read that again. He’s hitting damn near .500 against big-league arms for a week-plus straight. That’s not some fluky hot week, that’s a superstar strapping the entire team to his back and flat-out refusing to make outs.
The full-season line is beautiful. Bryce Harper is slashing .274/.392/.509 with 27 bombs and 80 RBI. Rock solid top to bottom. He’s clearly clicking into another gear as September hits, and we’ve all seen what a locked-in Bryce Harper does once October shows up.
It’s the stuff of legend around here.
Bryce Harper 4-4 night in Arizona
Bryce Harper has proven over and over that he owns the biggest moments. The man doesn’t shrink under the lights, he grows three sizes. When his bat’s this hot, every plate appearance is a live grenade. One swing flips a night, a series, an entire October, and every pitcher who has to face this lineup knows it. That fear changes how they attack the whole order, and it makes this offense a nightmare.
There’s work left. The Arizona finale is next, the Braves are still sitting in front in the East, and the road doesn’t get any softer from here but the timing on this is downright perfect.
Bryce Harper’s rolling, the Phillies have ripped off 8 of their last 10, and you can feel the belief crackling under the stadium lights again.
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As much as I’m checked out and know this team will faulter this month and post season, my god Bryce can ball out. I really do hope I’m wrong and the Phillies go all the way, but just because of Him. Lizardo doesn’t deserve the ring, he does. That being said Lazy Lizardo and Dumbroski are going to be the ones that prevent Bryce from getting what he deserves.