{"id":669437,"date":"2026-04-08T02:36:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669437\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T02:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:36:42","slug":"bryce-harper-states-he-loves-playing-at-giants-oracle-park-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669437\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryce Harper states he loves playing at Giants\u2019 Oracle Park \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to most opposing players, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harpebr03.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryce Harper<\/a> enjoys playing at Oracle Park.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s easier to say after a win, which Harper did after his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\/adrian-houser-matt-chapman-phillies\/1929387\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Giants 6-4<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love playing here,\u201d Harper told NBC Sports Philadelphia&#8217;s Tom McCarthy and Ruben Amaro Jr after the game. \u201cIt\u2019s one of my favorite parks to play in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The stats back it.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time NL MVP went 3-for-4 with two doubles, three RBIs and a walk in the Phillies&#8217; 6-4 comeback victory over the Giants, including a game-tying, two-run single to right in the seventh inning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just feel good [here], man,\u201d Harper continued. \u201cMy body feels good. My mind feels good. Every time I get in the batter\u2019s box, too. I always have good mornings here too, like going to eat, dinner places. It\u2019s just a good city to come visit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is refreshing to hear from a superstar talent like Harper, given some negative reviews of the city of San Francisco and the greater Bay Area as of late, with some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/san-francisco\/buster-posey-shohei-ohtani-dodgers-gaints\/3397370\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">calling the city dangerous and dirty.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the ballpark in itself isn&#8217;t most hitters&#8217; favorite.<\/p>\n<p>Oracle Park has ranked among the toughest stadiums for home runs, but it doesn&#8217;t bother Harper, an eight-time All-Star and four-time Silver Slugger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it\u2019s windy and cold, right, it\u2019s a little tough to play,\u201d Harper said. \u201cThroughout the whole night, it felt really good [swinging the bat].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully for the Giants, their bats can appreciate the ballpark as much as Harper does, as they look to snap out of an offensive funk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giants-talk-a-san-francisco-giants-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the Giants Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contrary to most opposing players, Bryce Harper enjoys playing at Oracle Park. That&#8217;s easier to say after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,26400,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-669437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-giants-news","10":"tag-philadelphia-phillies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116366762502635201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669437","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=669437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}