PHILADELPHIA -- It was the type of moment Bryce Harper lives for.
With the Phillies and Dodgers locked in a scoreless pitchers' duel in Game 2 of the NLDS, Harper stepped to the plate with two on and only one out in the sixth inning. A sellout crowd that had spent the past two hours waiting for a reason -- any reason -- to explode rose to its feet, anticipating the latest signature moment from "The Showman."
Harper took a big cut at a 1-0 slider up in the zone from Blake Snell, but fouled it back. That would be the only pitch Snell threw in the zone to Harper, who struck out four pitches later chasing a slider off the plate. Alec Bohm grounded into a forceout moments later to end the threat.
The Dodgers immediately made them pay, putting up a four-run seventh inning en route to a 4-3