We
are hitting the home stretch in the MLB and teams are fighting for
their post season lives at this point and one of those teams happens
to be the Washington Nationals. Not to long ago Bryce Harper said
that the NL East race isn't over and the Braves better watch out. Now
I am not one to hate on a man's confidence but if you make a
statement like that as a leader of the team you better make sure you
back it up when the games really count.
Fast
forward to this past series they just had with the 1st
place division rival Braves and you will see that all Harper did was
run his mouth because he certainly didn't produce at a high enough
level for the Nationals to even pick up at least 1 win. He hit 3-10
which is good but Bryce can't be just good at this point in the year
he needs to be great because this team has grossly underachieved
after a great season last year and isn't even winning 50% of its
games. There were times when he had a chance to come up with some big
base hits that could have one games for the Nats in this past series
and came up empty striking out. That can't happen at least put the
ball in play.
We
all know Harper and the Nats are a talented collection of players but
whats talent without production. Harper is putting up solid numbers
hitting 271. with 17 home runs and 38 RBI's but its crunch time for
the Nats and Bryce must show why he is big time. The NL East seems to
be all but over with the Nationals in 2nd place standing
at 15.5 games behind the Braves for 1st place. Now the
Nationals are only 9 games out of the wild card but they need to
start playing consistent baseball. In other words its time for Bryce
Harper to shut his mouth and just play baseball at a high level like
we know he can.
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