In between a couple home runs that elevated a stadium from extremely loud to downright deafening, Bryce Harper whispered to Alec Bohm.
Harper and Kevin Long had yelled for “Bohmer,” then in the on-deck circle, to meet Harper near the dugout steps for a chat. What did he whisper? We don’t know. They won’t say.
But Harper had seen something in his brief at bat against Lance McCullers Jr. about a minute prior. He’d deposited an 85-mph knuckle curve into a double-digit row beyond the right field wall, so he clearly knew something — and as a general rule, when Bryce Harper talks hitting, you should listen.