Watch: Harper keeps tormenting Teheran with solo shot, grand slam
Bryce Harper starts the night strong with his 6th career homer of Teheran #Nationals
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Bryce Harper doesn't merely have Julio Teheran's number. He has the dude's soul, man.
Heading into Wednesday's game at SunTrust Park, the 24-year-old Washington Nationals star was 13-for-31 (.419) with five homers off Teheran in his career, so, naturally, in the first inning, Harper took the young right-hander deep to left, about 396 feet, for his fifth homer of the 2017 campaign.
Surely, then, in his next at-bat, Harper would show Teheran some mercy, right? Uh, nope. An inning later, with two outs and the bases loaded, Harper deposited Teheran's 1-0 changeup over the wall in center, notching his third career grand slam to improve to 15-for-33 (.454) against the Atlanta Braves ace.
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Here's an artist's rendering of how the Atlanta crowd reacted when Harper stepped into the box for his third plate appearance of the evening. (He ended up walking.)

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