Baseball "brawls" usually aren't that exciting.
But Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper was able to inject some real violence into what's usually half-hearted pushing after getting hit by a Hunter Strickland pitch this afternoon.
Clear the benches!
Bryce Harper squares up for brawl with Giants’ Hunter Strickland after getting drilled by pitch https://t.co/CHcDD1F8OL pic.twitter.com/tpetIr0sAi — Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) May 29, 2017
Bryce Harper charges the mound after being hit by Hunter Strickland pic.twitter.com/vXB3TqOsCR
— Barno (@DCBarno) May 29, 2017
Bryce Harper's helmet throw gets the treatment pic.twitter.com/vp0wYQWv4b
— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) May 29, 2017
Bryce Harper goes after Hunter Strickland after an HBP and then Mike Morse and Jeff Samardzija are collateral damage. pic.twitter.com/jton90huP5
— Nick Bromberg (@NickBromberg) May 29, 2017
The bad blood between Harper and Strickland is apparently from a home run Harper hit against Strickland in 2014.
If Hunter Strickland just threw at Bryce w/ SF down 2-0 today because of HRs hit 3 years ago in a yr. SF won WS, teammates won't be happy.
— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) May 29, 2017
Today was the first time since then that the two had faced each other.