Consider disaster likely averted for Bryce Harper.
The Phillies’ first baseman was hit by an errant Richard Lovelady sinker in the sixth inning of Wednesday’s Grapefruit League game against the Blue Jays in Dunedin. It was only 92 mph, but there was no getting out of the way of this one:
Harper has a bruised right triceps, and Rob Thomson isn’t concerned, according to The Athletic’s Matt Gelb. Harper won’t be in the lineup on Thursday, but he wouldn’t have been anyway, per NBC Sports Philadelphia’s Corey Seidman.
It could have been much worse.