{"id":1968,"date":"2010-11-20T12:23:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T18:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2010-11-20T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T18:25:05","slug":"bryce-harper-takes-batting-practice-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1968","title":{"rendered":"Bryce Harper Takes Batting Practice (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bryceharperafl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1969\" title=\"bryceharperafl\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bryceharperafl-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bryce Harper will finally make his highly anticipated television debut on Saturday afternoon, as the Scottsdale Scorpions take on the Peoria Javelinas for the Arizona Fall League Championship.\u00a0 The Scorpions will attempt to derail the Javelinas, who are seeking their second consecutive title and are lead by the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> overall pick in the 2009 MLB Amateur Draft, Dustin Ackley.<\/p>\n<p>In a game that is loaded with some of the most exciting young players in all of baseball, all eyes will inevitably be on the 18-year old Harper, who is now in <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/nationalsjournal\/2010\/11\/bryce_harper_to_start_in_arizo.html\" target=\"_blank\">today\u2019s starting lineup.<\/a> Despite the skepticism surrounding the Nationals\u2019 decision to send their 1<sup>st<\/sup> overall selection in the 2010 MLB Amateur Draft to the AFL, Harper has continued to show that he can handle virtually every situation, on and off the field.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In just 35 at-bats over nine games as a member of the Scorpion\u2019s taxi-squad, Harper has hit .343\/.410\/.629 (1.039 OPS) with three doubles, two triples, a home run, and seven RBI.\u00a0\u00a0 Equally impressive is Harper\u2019s absurd 1.375 OPS &#8212; .375, 5 runs, 2 doubles, a triple, and 5 RBI &#8212; with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Fall League Championship can be found on both the MLB Network and MLB.com, with first pitch scheduled for 3:08 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><center><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GTHMq2hk4Jg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GTHMq2hk4Jg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryce Harper will finally make his highly anticipated television debut on Saturday afternoon, as the Scottsdale Scorpions take on the Peoria Javelinas for the Arizona Fall League Championship.\u00a0 The Scorpions will attempt to derail the Javelinas, who are seeking their second consecutive title and are lead by the 2nd overall pick in the 2009 MLB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,6,16,9,11,13,10,14,775],"tags":[1317,1173,1261,26,1321,1320,1242,3456,1319,1318],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1972,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}