They may be about a year apart in age, but Kris Bryant and Bryce Harper have been quite familiar with each other since their days of playing youth baseball in Las Vegas.
With the two facing off for the first time in the big leagues in a three-game set between the Chicago Cubs and Washington Nationals at Wrigley Field, it provided both ballplayers the chance to reminisce about those halcyon days of youth.
“He was always bigger than the competition,” Bryant recalled, according to ESPN’s Jesse Rogers. “He was always just better, and he was younger.