Bryce Harper

Strasburg's Big Surprise: His 1st Major League Home Run

AP | DAVID GINSBURG | Posted 05.20.2012

WASHINGTON -- Stephen Strasburg took a swing and looked in amazement as the baseball carried over the left-field wall. If Strasburg's first major lea...

PHOTOS: Nationals Beat Orioles

AP | DAVID GINSBURG | Posted 05.20.2012

WASHINGTON -- Wei-Yin Chen wasn't fooling anyone with his breaking ball, least of all Stephen Strasburg. Chen gave up a home run to Washington's star...

Collecting and Letting Go of My Friend's Dirty Laundry

Steven White | Posted 05.16.2012

Steven White

Given the collection I have amassed of sweat stained caps, grass stained pants and dirty shirts with other men's last names emblazoned on the backs, it was a difficult charge to refute.

WATCH: Nats Phenom Crushes First Big League Home Run

AP | Posted 05.15.2012

WASHINGTON — Bryce Harper hit his first big league home run, helping lead the Washington Nationals to an 8-5 victory over the San Diego Padres o...

MLB Phenom Injures Self With Own Bat

AP | Posted 05.12.2012

CINCINNATI -- Washington rookie Bryce Harper will miss a couple of days after he took an angry swing and his own bat accidentally hit him near the eye...

Nats GM Lashes Out At Cole Hamels For Intentional Plunking

The Huffington Post | Michael Klopman | Posted 05.07.2012

Shortly after his dominant win over Washington in Nationals Park, Phillies star Cole Hamels admitted to intentionally plunking 19-year-old phenom Bryc...

Cole Hamels Suspended For Intentional Plunking

AP | ROB MAADDI | Posted 05.07.2012

PHILADELPHIA — Cole Hamels earned a five-game suspension for the way he welcomed Bryce Harper to the big leagues. The 2008 World Series MVP was...

Pitcher On Plunking Phenom: 'I Was Trying To Hit Him'

AP | Posted 05.07.2012

WASHINGTON -- Cole Hamels admits it: He plunked rookie phenom Bryce Harper on purpose. "I was trying to hit him," the Philadelphia lefty said. "I'm n...

Nats Phenom's First Career Stolen Base Is Of Home

AP | Posted 05.07.2012

WASHINGTON -- Washington Nationals rookie Bryce Harper stole home in the bottom of the first inning against Philadelphia on Sunday night. The 19-year...

Young Phenom Pushes Nats Past D-Backs

AP | Posted 05.04.2012

WASHINGTON -- Bryce Harper showed why his manager put him in the No. 3 spot for his fifth career game. The 19-year-old phenom hit a tiebreaking RBI d...

Nats Phenom Steals Show In Come-From-Behind-Win

AP | Posted 05.03.2012

WASHINGTON — Bryce Harper had a hand in everything for the Washington Nationals. Harper made a tumbling barehanded catch in centerfield and the...

WATCH: Bryce Harper Shows Up For Random Softball Game

Posted 05.02.2012

What should any teenager do with a free day in the nation's capital? See the sights. For starters, there are the monuments and memorials, the White Ho...

Can The Nats Keep Up This Pace?

Grantland | Posted 05.01.2012

Playing in front of a sellout Dodger Stadium crowd, Bryce Harper, just the sixth player to make his major league debut as a teenager in the past nine ...

Wonderboy: Bryce Harper Flashes Potential In Debut

AP | Posted 04.29.2012

LOS ANGELES -- Bryce Harper's first day in the major leagues came with all the hype one would expect for the player dubbed "Baseball's Chosen One" whe...

Nationals Call Up Top Prospect

AP | HOWARD FENDRICH | Posted 04.28.2012

Bryce Harper tends to do things ahead of schedule, so it should surprise no one that he's already heading to the major leagues. The 19-...

Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 10.19.2011

Len Berman

They sure sound like fun, The Redneck Olympics in Hebron, Maine. Just the usual events involving lots of mud and the tossing of toilet seats. Well, the real Olympic guys weren't amused.

Baseball Phenom Ejected From Minor League Game

Posted 10.11.2011

Bryce Harper, the top position prospect in the Washington Nationals' farm system, made headlines with his mouth instead of his bat on Wednesday night ...

PROMOTED

AP | By JOSEPH WHITE | Posted 09.03.2011

WASHINGTON -- Bryce Harper's impressive stats earned the teenager a Fourth of July promotion Monday, moving on to Double-A as part of the Washington N...

Baseball Phenom Taunts Pitcher With Kiss

Posted 08.07.2011

Bryce Harper might want to rethink his home-run trot before he reaches the big leagues. The vaunted Washington Nationals prospect smacked a home ru...

Nationals Reach Last-Minute Deal With Top Prospect Bryce Harper

AP | HOWARD FENDRICH | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Agreeing to a $9.9 million, five-year deal with No. 1 draft choice Bryce Harper seconds before the deadline was such a big deal, Wa...

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Steven Hirsch | Posted 05.25.2011

Steven Hirsch

All the teams in the National League East have surplus talent in their farm systems and the end of the 2010 season could be affected by how well these prospects perform at in the Major Leagues.