And yet the next time Posey steps between Harper and Strickland will be the first. On Tuesday, Strickland was suspended six games and Harper was shelved for four due to their roles in the melee. But as Nationals outfielder Jayson Werth told reporters, “It’s part of the game.”Given that, what happened Monday afternoon at AT&T Park in San Francisco isn’t terribly surprising. “It’s so in the past that it’s not even relevant anymore,” Harper told reporters after the game. “Hunter waits three years to get him,” Nats second baseman Daniel Murphy, not a member of Washington’s 2014 team, told reporters after the game.

Source: thestar May 31, 2017 02:03 UTC