{"id":59689,"date":"2025-05-28T00:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T00:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/59689\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T00:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T00:13:10","slug":"bryce-harper-leaves-phillies-braves-game-after-taking-fastball-to-elbow-x-rays-come-up-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/59689\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryce Harper leaves Phillies-Braves game after taking fastball to elbow; X-rays come up negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryce Harper left Tuesday&#8217;s game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves after being hit on his right elbow with a pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Per the TV broadcast, <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaysonst\/status\/1927508985596297523\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the Phillies announced;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the Phillies announced<\/a> that X-rays on Harper&#8217;s elbow from the Phillies clubhouse were negative. The initial diagnosis was of a contusion.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place in the bottom of the first inning. Braves starter Spencer Strider threw a 95 mph fastball inside on an 0-1 count that hit Harper on his elbow. Harper immediately clutched his elbow and eventually knelt to the ground in pain.<\/p>\n<p>The hit was to <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/phillies-bryce-harper-undergoes-tommy-john-surgery-hoping-for-mid-may-return-223747998.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:the same elbow that required Tommy John surgery;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the same elbow that required Tommy John surgery<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Edmundo Sosa took Harper&#8217;s place on the basepaths after Harper was awarded first base. It&#8217;s not immediately clear how much more time if any that Harper will miss or if he&#8217;ll require further evaluation of the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Harper, 32, is an eight-time All-Star and two-time NL MVP. He won the fourth Silver Slugger of his career last season and received MVP votes. In 53 games this season, Harper is slashing .267\/.372\/.450 with eight home runs, 33 RBI and eight stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies entered Tuesday&#8217;s game in first place in the NL East with a 1.5-game lead over the New York Mets. Their 34-19 record entering Tuesday was the best in MLB.<\/p>\n<p>Harper is obviously key to Philadelphia&#8217;s hopes of competing for a World Series championship this season.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryce Harper left Tuesday&#8217;s game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves after being hit on his right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[46,5,192,1207,6924,16654,4,61,144,25,4216,40,773],"class_list":{"0":"post-59689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-braves","11":"tag-bryce-harper","12":"tag-edmundo-sosa","13":"tag-geoff-stellfox","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-new-york-mets","16":"tag-philadelphia","17":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","18":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","19":"tag-phillies","20":"tag-spencer-strider"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114582572946587119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}