ATLANTA — Bryce Harper crouched in right field while the Phillies changed pitchers, hearing it from the Atlanta crowd. They’ve booed Harper for more than a decade, all the way back to when everyone was at Turner Field, but they’d never had so delicious a moment to rub in Harper’s face as they did on Wednesday.
Harper had misplayed a Drake Baldwin fly ball, allowing it to skip off the top of his massive silver glove and dribble around the right-field warning track. Sean Murphy scored as Harper helplessly chased the ball, giving Atlanta a 2-1 seventh-inning lead in this win-or-go-home wild-card playoff game for the Phillies. Two batters later...
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