The Enquirer/Zach Buchanan
Two pitches into their first face-off Friday, Tim Adleman had two strikes on Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper.
The first was a curveball down and in, and Harper fanned at it. The second was the same pitch in the same spot, but this time Harper fouled it off. Then the Cincinnati Reds right-hander's recent two-strike struggle reared its head.
Harper laid off a curveball down and away for ball one, and then took a high fastball to even the count. Adleman buried another curve in the dirt, but didn’t elicit a swing.