With dramatic home run – and epic bat flip – Bryce Harper officially becomes the villain in Washington
#BryceHarper #Baseball #MLB #Villian #PhiladelphiaPhillies #BatFlip WASHINGTON — Bryce Harper’s return to the only baseball home he’d known began and ended in the same fashion. He entered Nationals Park quietly, around 2 p.m., making a mostly solitary journey to the unfamiliar visitor’s clubhouse, where a security guard known locally as Cowboy dapped him up as he entered. Ten hours later, still clad in his Philadelphia Phillies uniform, he exited the clubhouse for a postgame press conference, Cowboy wishing him a good game, and another security guard imploring him, “Say hi to your Mom and Dad for me.” “I will,” Harper promised. It was the time in between those exchanges that informed the next 13 years of Harper’s baseball life here. The stadium staff, the front office members who ordered up a pregame video tribute, even some former Washington Nationals teammates – they may forever remain his allies. Yet the majority of Nationals fans who adored him for seven seasons mad