GAME IN A NUTSHELL: No matter how much the game has changed over the decades, through deadball eras and steroid eras, there’s always been something special about the 3-homer game. It’s a single-game feat accomplished by some of baseball’s greatest, but not all. And on this warm Wednesday afternoon on South Capitol Street, Bryce Harper added his name to the list with the best power display of his young career.
Harper homered in each of his first three at-bats, all off Marlins right-hander Tom Koehler, to stake the Nationals to a 5-2 lead and elicit a curtain call from the crowd of 31,417.