{"id":255333,"date":"2026-07-30T04:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/bryce-harper-under-fire-for-postgame-comments\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T04:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:30:43","slug":"bryce-harper-under-fire-for-postgame-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/bryce-harper-under-fire-for-postgame-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryce Harper under fire for postgame comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/philadelphia_phillies\/21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> star first baseman Bryce Harper was in the headlines on Wednesday morning after his plea for help to the organization ahead of the Aug. 3 MLB trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Harper&#8217;s comment was not received well from Phillies brass, and they&#8217;ve put him a bit under fire in the day following the remark.<\/p>\n<h2>Don Mattingly sounds off on Harper<\/h2>\n<p>Philadelphia manager Don Mattingly was asked about Harper&#8217;s comments ahead of Wednesday&#8217;s game and his response certainly reflected some displeasure with his star.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you say something about our team, then you&#8217;re saying something about one of our players that you don&#8217;t like,&#8221; Mattingly said, via reporter Tyler Boronski.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/bryce_harper_under_fire_for_postgame_comments\/s1_13132_44114943\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Phillies star first baseman Bryce Harper was in the headlines on Wednesday morning after his plea for help to the organization ahead of the Aug. 3 MLB trade deadline. Harper&#8217;s comment was not received well from Phillies brass, and they&#8217;ve put him a bit under fire in the day following the remark. Don Mattingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}