Despite coming off the bench with a game-tying double in Friday evening’s win over the Washington Nationals, Bryce Harper isn’t in the lineup Saturday for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Interim manager Rob Thomson told the media at Nationals Park that Harper has an infection in a blister on the padding just below his left index finger. While Harper had felt it a little bit yesterday, it had nothing to do with him not starting Game 2. But overnight, Thomson says that “it kind of blew up on him”
Harper is on antibiotics and was getting treatment on the infection early Saturday afternoon.