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WATCH: Bryce Harper’s first home run of Spring Training was an absolute bomb

Washington Nationals’ slugger Bryce Harper got hold of one on Sunday afternoon and hit his first home run on the Spring. If you missed it, what were you doing that was more important?

By Will Kubzansky
MLB: Spring Training-Detroit Tigers at Washington Nationals Steve Mitchell-USA TODAY Sports

Bryce Harper, in case you forgot, is still coming off a pretty scary injury to his knee. When he hit a monster home run in Game 2 of the NLDS (they won the game, lost the series, not that it needed specification), it was a sign that everything was clicking and that Bryce was still Bryce.

However, since Spring Training games began, Harper hadn’t yet quite looked like the Bryce Harper of pre-injury days. Which wasn’t really a problem, because it was Spring Training, and it legitimately does not matter nor does it have any correlation to regular season success:

All of which is to say, Bryce Harper connected for a two-run home run in yesterday’s game against the Tigers, and it was glorious. Absolutely glorious.

Sure, it didn’t have the distance that typically defines Harper’s midseason blasts — but into the wind this early in the spring isn’t a bad place to start.

It should also be noted that Harper is coming off of surgery to remove an ingrown toenail, so maybe the toenail was what was hampering his ability to hit those coveted early-March bombs.

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