WATCH: Bryce Harper Silences the Crowd with a 456-Foot Home Run
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For a day and a half, Giants fans were extremely hostile towards Bryce Harper, he was booed each time he stepped into the batter’s box at Oracle Park.
In the fifth inning Friday night, Harper replied with the bat in hand.
That’s when the Phillies outfielder launched a 456 foot home run to center field off Giants starter Tyler Beede.
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Bryce Harper silencing Oracle Park… THE SEQUEL! pic.twitter.com/vHCp3IqIte
— NBC Sports Philadelphia (@NBCSPhilly) August 10, 2019
As he touched home plate, Harper put his finger to his mouth and looked up to the crowd as if to say “Be quite!”
Harper seemed to have enjoyed the give-and-take with opposing fans who boo and jeer him, especially at this ballpark, but he and some of his Phillies teammates said some of the verbiage from the box seats said things they must not say.
“I think there are certain things that people say that people shouldn’t say, and shouldn’t come out of their mouths,” Harper said. “That’s part of sports, I guess.”
Bryce Harper has heard a lot of boos through two nights here. He shushed the crowd after hitting a homer: pic.twitter.com/rsOfV36vHB
— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) August 10, 2019
Adam Haseley shot a single past Brandon Crawford to start the inning. Pinch-hitter Sean Rodriguez walked with Harper on deck. Watson has frustrated Harper over the years with breaking pitches. This one didn’t break.
“I just threw a mixer up there and he put it into the cove,” Watson said. “I threw a terrible pitch and he crushed it.”
Harper’s homer gave the Phils an 8-6 lead. They added another run off Watson, and the scoring for the night ended there.
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#Phillies 5 @ #SFGiants 3 [T5-1o]:
Bryce Harper homers (21): fly ball to CF (solo)
Hit: 419.95ft, 113.22mph🔥, 33.08°🚀
Pitch: 85.6mph Changeup (RHP Tyler Beede, 16) pic.twitter.com/vFdmAQQAhY
— Home Run Tracker (@DingerTracker) August 10, 2019
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The Giants lost for the first time in 12 games this year when they hit three homers.
This is not the first time Harper has staged an epic revenge. In his first game in D.C. against the Nats in the first week of the season, he stepped up in front of thousands of Nats fans raining down their disapproval of his decision to skip town, which has to be one of the best revenge games there has ever been.