PHILADELPHIA — When gossip spread among the Philadelphia Phillies that Bryce Harper — of all the MLB superstars to poke — had been laughed at inside the Atlanta Braves clubhouse, the slugger’s teammates dared him to deliver.
“They looked at me,” Harper said, “and they were like, ‘What are you going to do?'”
Well, how about two home runs, two staredowns, four RBIs and one more marvelous game added to his growing October lore.
Harper answered Orlando Arcia’s mockery with a mammoth three-run homer and a solo shot, glaring at the Atlanta shortstop on each trot around the bases, and the National League’s fourth-seeded Phillies beat the top-seeded Braves 10-2 in Game 3 of their NL Division Series on Wednesday night.
Message sent?