The Phillies slugger has a single and three strikeouts in the NL Division Series, which Philadelphia trails 2-0 against the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love our fans. I boo myself when I get out,\u201d Harper said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Game 3 is Wednesday at Dodger Stadium, with the Phillies facing elimination in the best-of-five series.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will probably get booed tomorrow night, too,\u201d Harper said.<\/p>\n
He didn’t agree that a change of venue \u2014 away from their frustrated fan base \u2014 is a good thing for the slumping Phillies.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got some of the best fans in baseball and they make me play better, so I enjoy it,\u201d Harper said. \u201cThey show up for us every day. They spend their hard-earned dollar to come watch us play; they expect greatness out of us and I expect greatness out of myself and my teammates as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Third baseman Nick Castellanos came up big in a wild ninth inning that nearly saw the Phillies steal a win Monday. The fan reaction whipsawed between huge cheers and deafening boos in the 4-3 loss.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that the stadium is alive on both sides, right?\u201d Castellanos said. \u201cWhen the game is going good, it\u2019s wind at our back, but when the game is not going good, it\u2019s wind in our face. The environment can be with us, and the environment can be against us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harper was glad to be in sunny Los Angeles, not far from his hometown of Las Vegas where he was a Dodgers fan.<\/p>\n
He became a father\u00a0for the fourth time last week, when his wife, Kayla, gave birth to a son.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got an incredible wife, man. She pushed that thing out in three pushes and 30 seconds,\u201d Harper said. \u201cShe\u2019s an absolute monster doing it. Women. Man, what a breed. I\u2019m serious, it\u2019s an incredible thing. Being able to hold your son for the first time is something. It\u2019s one of the greatest moments of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
The couple now has two boys, Krew and Hayes, and two girls, Brooklyn and Kamryn, all of whom are age 6 and under.<\/p>\n
Harper said he loves baseball, but his family means the most.<\/p>\n
\u201cI definitely miss them right now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phillies slugger has a single and three strikeouts in the NL Division Series, which Philadelphia trails 2-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-196276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}