Phillies Fans Will Be Begging Bryce Harper To Have More Kids, Homers In Return From Paternity Leave Again

Phillies fans are going to be begging Bryce Harper and his wife to continue pumping out kids in the middle of the Major League Baseball season because when they do good things happen.

Harper returned to the lineup from paternity leave after the birth of his third child and second daughter on Thursday with the Phillies in Cincinnati for the third game of a four-game series.

Harper grounded out in his first at-bat of the afternoon, and when he came up again in the top of the third inning a couple of Reds fans gave him the ol' "Overrated".

Mistake.

Apparently, adding another kid is to Harper what Spinach is to Popeye the Sailor Man, and he smoked a two-run shot into the right field seats.

He hasn't mellowed after having another kid either. Bryce found time to give it back to the hecklers after he crossed home plate.

If you're getting Deja vu, it's because Harper did this same thing almost five years ago. Harper returned to the lineup after the birth of his first child — a son — in August 2019 against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

He belted one into the Citizens Bank Park bleachers in his first show of dad strength.

It's impressive to do that once, but twice? I could see some fans arguing that he has a responsibility for the good of the team to make this a yearly thing. Considering Harper has a 66.66% success rate of homering in games where he returns from paternity leave, the Harper brood needs to continue expanding for the good of the team.

Clearly, he doesn't mind putting in the extra work over the offseason. Just a team player through and through.

I just hate to think what would happen in the City of Philadelphia if Harper decides that he's got enough youngins and decides to get a vasectomy. It doesn't seem like that'd go over well.

The Phillies went on to win that game 5-0 and afterward, Harper was on the receiving end of some ice water down the back but made sure to get his revenge in the form of a nut tap to teammate Bryson Stott.