“When we do take BP, you’ll see the raw power. He knows because he watches Harper crush balls into the seats with ease in batting practice. Thomson says Harper’s power dip isn’t related to injury. Harper has never hit less than 13 homers in a season, and one of those years was in the COVID-19-shortened 2020 campaign. History shows he can start mashing in bunches. Maybe a few more late-inning Harper homers can rally them in the second half toward another Red October. They’re nine games behind the Braves in the NL East and two games back of a wild-card spot. The Phillies only have warning-track power in the standings. The Phillies have 78 homers this season, ranked 20th in baseball, entering Wednesday. No other Phillies player has hit more than eight. But the rest of the lineup the Phillies were set to use against Atlanta right-hander AJ Smith-Shawver was light on the long ball. 191) has 24 homers and is making a run at defending his NL home run crown. Hoskins, who hit 30 homers last season, is out for 2023 with a torn ACL in his left knee. The Phillies already miss first baseman Rhys Hoskins’ pop in the lineup. He last played right field on April 16, 2022, and has taken grounders at first base in anticipation of a possible move there after the All-Star break. The 30-year-old Harper has served exclusively this season as the designated hitter. Harper, in the fifth season of a $330 million, 13-year contract, returned to the lineup in May, just 160 days after surgery on his right elbow. Harper has brushed aside questions that his power outage is linked in any way to his early return from offseason Tommy John surgery. It’s not me talking great about myself, but I just feel like the power will come, those numbers will come.” I’ve never really struggled with power in my career, I could say. “I gotta take my walks, and I gotta keep getting on base and having good days.
“I can’t try to do it because if I try to do it, then I’m going to punch out and not get on base,” Harper said. This season, Harper has just three homers over 183 plate appearances.
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Harper’s two-run blast in the eighth inning of a Game 5 win in last season’s NLCS that sent the Phillies into the World Series is on the short list of great moments in Philly sports history. He led the league with 42 homers with Washington in 2015, and hit at least 30 three other times. “Harp hasn’t gotten on a streak yet,” manager Rob Thomson mused Wednesday, the tarp on the field.
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