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Friday, May 11, 2012

Bryce Harper injures self, gets 10 stitches above left eye

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Sometimes it’s easy to forget he’s still just a kid, but Nationals phenom Bryce Harper reminded us all Friday night. In the midst of the worst game of his ridiculously-young big-league career—0-for-5 with three strikeouts—Harper was so mad at himself that he slammed a bat against the side of the dugout.

In and of itself, that wouldn’t be big news. After all, baseball players do stuff like this frequently. But in this case, the bat came back and struck Harper above his left eye, slicing him open (via Amanda Comak of the Washington Times). He needed 10 stitches to close the wound (Comak), though he doesn’t intend to miss any games.

Repoz Posted: May 11, 2012 at 11:27 PM | 35 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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   1. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: May 11, 2012 at 11:44 PM (#4129997)
he should have his great-grandparents taken away
   2. Monty Posted: May 12, 2012 at 12:00 AM (#4130019)
If Bryce Harper maintains this pace, by the end of his career, he will have been responsible for seventy-five kazillion news articles.
   3. asdf1234 Posted: May 12, 2012 at 12:03 AM (#4130024)
If only Mike Trout could do something newsworthy.
   4. God Posted: May 12, 2012 at 12:08 AM (#4130030)
I figured the article was going to tell us that he stitched it up himself and then went out and hit 6 home runs.
   5. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: May 12, 2012 at 12:12 AM (#4130036)
If Bryce Harper maintains this pace, by the end of his career, he will have been responsible for seventy-five kazillion news articles.

and even more stitches
   6. Dale Sams Posted: May 12, 2012 at 12:17 AM (#4130041)
If Bryce Harper maintains this pace, by the end of his career, he will have been responsible for seventy-five kazillion news articles.


Otherwise known as "five less this week than Boston Baseball Think Factory."
   7. Eric P. Posted: May 12, 2012 at 12:30 AM (#4130051)
I figured the article was going to tell us that he stitched it up himself and then went out and hit 6 home runs.


Stitches? Please. Harper wanted to cauterize that son of a #####.
   8. Jim Wisinski Posted: May 12, 2012 at 12:35 AM (#4130057)
If only Mike Trout could do something newsworthy.


He'll just have to settle for being the better player right now.
   9. TerpNats Posted: May 12, 2012 at 12:57 AM (#4130076)
If only Mike Trout could do something newsworthy.

He'll just have to settle for being the better player right now.
On the worse team.
   10. The Clarence Thomas of BBTF (scott) Posted: May 12, 2012 at 01:01 AM (#4130080)
And a year older. Harper's got a 119 OPS+ right now, which massively outpaces Trout's age 19 season. I'm most impressed by the more walks than strikeouts.
   11. TerpNats Posted: May 12, 2012 at 01:08 AM (#4130085)
It's a fast infield at Great American Ballpark...a fast dugout wall, too.
   12. McCoy Wilfong for Money Posted: May 12, 2012 at 01:10 AM (#4130087)
Harper's got a 119 OPS+ right now

Not at this moment.
   13. JE (Jason Epstein) Posted: May 12, 2012 at 01:24 AM (#4130097)
It is quickly becoming unbearable to listen to Carpenter and FP Santangelo whenever Harper's name comes up. Give it another week and even Jeter will be jealous of all this deity worship.
   14. Hecubot Posted: May 12, 2012 at 02:37 AM (#4130099)
Heh. Dumbass.

And, I say that with affection and respect, but still. He couldn't be more 19.
   15. Jolly Old St. Nick Done Jumped The Ship Posted: May 12, 2012 at 06:52 AM (#4130107)
I once threw a bat in the air like a baton, and wound up getting several stitches in my lip. The good news is that I had a reaction to a tetanus shot that allowed me to miss school for the entire World Series. The bad news is that it was the 1960 World Series.
   16. Edmundo got dem ol' Kozma blues again mama Posted: May 12, 2012 at 06:59 AM (#4130109)
The bad news is that it was the 1960 World Series.

Character building. It gave you the resolve to do Sisyphean battle with the idealogites.
   17. FancyPantsHandle glistening with foreign substance Posted: May 12, 2012 at 07:13 AM (#4130112)
I figured the article was going to tell us that he stitched it up himself and then went out and hit 6 home runs.

I figured the article was going to be about him injuring himself walking into somebody else's pitch.
   18. AJM Posted: May 12, 2012 at 07:38 AM (#4130117)
If Bryce Harper maintains this pace, by the end of his career, he will have been responsible for seventy-five kazillion news articles.

That would still leave him 4 kazillion short of Francoeur.
   19. Bob Evans Posted: May 12, 2012 at 07:46 AM (#4130121)
Character building. It gave you the resolve to do Sisyphean battle with the idealogites.

That's the first time I ever heard rooting for the Ford-Mantle-Stengel Yankees described as character building.
   20. The Clarence Thomas of BBTF (scott) Posted: May 12, 2012 at 07:57 AM (#4130123)

Not at this moment.


Yeah, going 0-5 shortly after being called up will put a ding in your numbers. No wonder he put himself in stitches.
   21. no neck Posted: May 12, 2012 at 08:16 AM (#4130126)
Was the bat a Cole Hamels model?
   22. cercopithecus aethiops Posted: May 12, 2012 at 09:08 AM (#4130131)
Give it another week and even Jeter will be jealous of all this deity worship.


Depends on what Harper puts in his gift baskets.
   23. McCoy Wilfong for Money Posted: May 12, 2012 at 10:44 AM (#4130153)
Harper is now at a 95 OPS+
   24. JE (Jason Epstein) Posted: May 12, 2012 at 10:53 AM (#4130157)
Espinosa hit a home run last night but otherwise has been downright awful. How much longer should Nats fans expect to wait for Lombardozzi to claim the starting job?
   25. Joey B. has ignited his October #Natitude Posted: May 12, 2012 at 12:08 PM (#4130185)
Great, are the Nationals going to have to put padding on all the clubhouse walls like it's a retard room now?

I swear, today's ball players are some of the dumbest MFers on the planet.
   26. McCoy Wilfong for Money Posted: May 12, 2012 at 12:32 PM (#4130201)
Well, at least they aren't trying to iron their shirt while they are wearing it. Or hurting themselves while they put on their cowboy boots, or while popping wheelies on their motorcycle, or while sleeping in a rocking chair, or having their false teeth bite them in the ass.
   27. DA Baracus is gritty and hits with RISP Posted: May 12, 2012 at 12:42 PM (#4130204)
Harper is now at a 95 OPS+


Pfft. Xavier Nady has a -0 OPS+. Now that's impressive.
   28. McCoy Wilfong for Money Posted: May 12, 2012 at 12:48 PM (#4130207)

Pfft. Xavier Nady has a -0 OPS+. Now that's impressive.

Joey B will invariably stick up for his Orioles and point out that Endy Chavez has a -4 OPS+ in the same amount of PA and has Nady beat on the tiebreaker. Endy is 0 for 2 on steals while Nady is 1 for 1.
   29. Curse of the Andino Posted: May 12, 2012 at 02:00 PM (#4130238)
Joey B will invariably stick up for his Orioles and point out that Endy Chavez has a -4 OPS+ in the same amount of PA and has Nady beat on the tiebreaker. Endy is 0 for 2 on steals while Nady is 1 for 1.


Plus, Chavez has been awful in LF for the O's. Ghost of Felix Pie...
   30. Guapo Posted: May 12, 2012 at 02:17 PM (#4130245)
#26: you forgot getting drunk and falling off a train while it's going over a waterfall.
   31. Yclept Posted: May 12, 2012 at 02:29 PM (#4130251)
or having their false teeth bite them in the ass


That's faux teeth to you, ageist whippersnapper!
   32. McCoy Wilfong for Money Posted: May 12, 2012 at 03:01 PM (#4130268)
#26: you forgot getting drunk and falling off a train while it's going over a waterfall.

Actually he was kicked off the train because he was drunk and rowdy and then fell off the tracks while walking across a rail bridge, supposedly.
   33. Crispix Attacks 2: Swag Airlines Posted: May 12, 2012 at 03:13 PM (#4130274)
I'm starting to become familiar with the parallel universe of soccer player injury stories.

So far at least no MLB player has gone on the DL because he burned himself microwaving an egg.
   34. What did Billy Ripken have against Elroy Face? Posted: May 12, 2012 at 03:40 PM (#4130287)
Wieters would have suspended the laws of physics before the bat hit him.
   35. Bob Evans Posted: May 12, 2012 at 05:13 PM (#4130328)
a train...going over a waterfall

Sounds like that could pretty much take out a whole team.

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