MLB playoffs: Bryce Harper answers Orlando Arcia with his bat as Phillies crush Braves

Once again, Bryce Harper didn’t stop at second base. This time, Orlando Arcia didn’t find it so funny. After making the final out of Game 2 of the NLDS on the basepaths, Harper was reportedly the subject of ridicule in the Braves’ clubhouse postgame. Arcia was observed repeating, “Atta-boy Harper” after reporters entered, referencing Harper being doubled off of first base after Michael Harris II’s spectacular catch on Nick Castellanos with two outs in the ninth inning Monday night. There was a good bit of chatter about the comment in the Phillies’ clubhouse pregame, manager Rob Thomson said, without offering judgment one way or the other. Harper responded the way Harper tends to respond — with the violent, loud swing that will send him to the Hall of Fame someday. He took Bryce Elder deep to right for a three-run home run in a game-changing third inning Wednesday night, then went out to center field in the fifth. Harper made sure to shoot Arcia a glare as he rounded second base … and then again after his second homer two innings later. Philadelphia Phillies The Phillies hung six runs on Elder and the Braves in the third inning of Game
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