PHILADELPHIA — For the third straight day, South Philly sounded like the South Bronx.
When Bryce Harper, the unofficial mayor of Philadelphia, stepped to the plate in the ninth inning Wednesday, he did so as the potential winning run. With Kyle Schwarber on first base and the Phillies down a run, a Harper blast would’ve ended the proceedings. The Yankees, so close to turning a corner, would’ve been handed another gut-punch loss.
But instead of heroics, Harper — mired in the worst 30-at-bat stretch of his career — produced a meek grounder to second.