Bryce Harper's Batting Streak Lights Up National All-Women's Tournaments
All the hype led to this moment.
Phillies' Bryce Harper had his crowning moment in WBC — at least for a few minutes originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Every bit of the hype led to this swing.
Bryce Harper was the teenage phenom who enrolled in junior college early so he could get drafted early so he could start on his professional baseball path that had been written in the stars from an age earlier than most prodigies are identified. And really, when you examine most of Harper's career, he has matched or exceeded the hype. He's one of the best hitters of his generation.
It's hard to ask for more. Except in this World Baseball Classic, Team USA found itself consistently asking for more. Harper wasn't delivering.
Until this swing. Until his last at bat of the tournament, with the U. S.