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With a Flip of His Bat, Bryce Harper Begins Next Chapter of His Career

WASHINGTON, D.C. – By the time Bryce Harper reached the visiting clubhouse at Nationals Park after three postgame interviews on the field, after obliterating a baseball farther than all but two of the 608 balls he hit at Nationals Park over the previous four years, after he practically cleared the stadium of once-tough Nationals fans who came to boo him with an epic bat flip to shame the most nifty of drum majors, after the Phillies were 4-0 for the first time in 104 years, and after what will stand as the unforgettable first game of the rest of his baseball life, his Philadelphia teammates were there waiting for him.