Daily News | Li’l Papi? Bryce Harper’s fast playoff for Phillies start recalls David “Big Papi” Ortiz and the 2004 Red Sox
Through eight postseason games, Harper leads all playoff participants with a 1.390 OPS, four home runs, and four doubles. His seven RBIs tie him with the Astros’ Yordan Alvarez, and his .419 batting average is best among players with more than seven at-bats; he has 31.
Harper’s Phillies, the No. 6 seed in baseball’s expanded playoff format, had just won again. He’d hit the game-winning home run. His numbers were sick. But Harper had already given Wheeler & Co. a lead. The Schwar-bomb came in the sixth; it was just the cherry on top.Part of the reason Big Papi became a darling was his back story. He was released by the Twins after the 2002 season to avoid an arbitration raise, and he landed with the Red Sox thanks to campaigning by Red Sox ace Pedro Martinez, a Dominican countryman.
When the Nationals drafted him No. 1 overall in 2010, Harper was the most-hyped hitting prospect since the Seattle Mariners took Alex Rodriguez first overall in 1993. Ortiz’s hits were louder; Big Papi hit a walk-off homer to win the ALDS; had walk-off hits to win Games 4 and 5 of the ALCS in the Red Sox’s unprecedented, 0-3 comeback against the New York Yankees in the ALCS; and fueled a sweep of the Cardinals in the World Series with a three-run shot in Game 1.
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