“All three of those guys are such great people,” Gingrich, 44, a long-time hitting coordinator in player development, wrote to Federal Baseball this week. Then he got to see the three superstars make their way to City Island. Gingrich is a California native who played in the minors with Montreal and spent part of 2001-03 at Double-A Harrisburg as an outfielder.
Overlooked, however, is that Soto, Turner and Harper all played for Double-A Harrisburg on their rise through the minors on the way to Nationals Park.Īnd each of them worked at some point with Troy Gingrich, who is one of the few in player development with Washington that can make that claim. Much has been made of the fact that the trio were all teammates for part of 2018 – after young sensation Soto was called up from Double-A in May of that year. I don’t know, I just really enjoy it.WASHINGTON – For the past few weeks, Juan Soto, Trea Turner, and Bryce Harper have been the top three hitters for average in the National League. I really enjoy coming to ballparks that are hostile. “Like I just really enjoy this situation. Realmuto became the first catcher in postseason history to hit an inside-the-park home run. Rhys Hoskins had an epic bat spike on a monster homer against the Braves, and J.T.
JUAN SOTO VS BRYCE HARPER STATS SERIES
Louis and two in going 8 for 16 as the Phillies eliminated the defending World Series champion Atlanta Braves in the NLDS. Harper hit one homer in the wild-card series win at St. Harper joined Gary Matthews (1983) as the only players in franchise history to homer in three straight postseason games in the same year. They’ve hit eight homers in seven games this postseason. The long balls by Harper and Schwarber were the latest impressive home runs for the Phillies, who are back in the playoffs for the first time since 2011. Manny Machado flied out and Alvarado struck out Josh Bell for the save, looking skyward and clapping after getting the final out. Jurickson Profar drew a one-out walk and Juan Soto reached when third baseman Alec Bohm made an errant throwing trying for a force. Still, they had a chance to win in the ninth against José Alvarado. The Padres, who eliminated the 111-win Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLDS, had only four baserunners, including a single by Wil Myers in the fifth. The ball kind of went into the middle area and he got the most of it,” he said through an interpreter. I knew he was waiting on something off-speed. He put a good swing on it.”ĭarvish said it wasn’t a mistake pitch to Harper, but added, “For Schwarber that is on me, that is my mistake. It was left over the middle - it was up in the zone. “I’ve never even seen that done in batting practice or anything.”Īustin Nola, the Padres’ catcher, said “that ball was hit as far as I’ve ever seen. Wheeler said he was in the tunnel just off the dugout, “but I heard everybody sort of take off, so I ran up the stairs and I saw it land, and that was pretty crazy,” the pitcher said. “It was a cool moment, but I’m happy that we got the win overall.” “A lot of people just looked at me weird,” Schwarber said about the reaction he got in the dugout. “I’ve never seen a ball go up in that section in Petco Park. “I thought it got pretty small pretty fast,” said Harper, who’s in his first NLCS. Schwarber, who led the NL with 46 home runs this season but was in a 1-for-20 postseason slump coming in, raised his right arm as he rounded first base and Harper stood in the dugout with his mouth agape in amazement. It was the farthest in his career and the farthest at Petco in the Statcast Era and gave the Phillies a 2-0 lead. Schwarber’s incredible shot on Darvish’s first pitch of the sixth had an exit velocity of 119.7 mph - the hardest-hit ball in any postseason since Statcast began tracking in 2015 - and was the first to reach the right field upper deck at Petco Park, which opened in 2004. Harper, the two-time NL MVP who won the award last year, has hit nine home runs in 26 career postseason games. It was the fourth home run this postseason for Harper, who was playing in San Diego for the first time since his left thumb was broken when he was hit by a pitch by Blake Snell on June 25, sidelining him for two months. Harper, trying to reach his first World Series, hit a high-arcing, opposite-field shot into the first row in left field with one out in the fourth.
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