Vision-impaired Harper couldn't get his contacts in, singled anyway

How do you know Bryce Harper's one of the best hitters on the planet? The dude doesn't even need to see and he can get a hit anyway.

During the first game of the Washington Nationals' doubleheader against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday, Harper was having trouble with his prescription contact lenses, forcing him to begin the game wearing his everyday frames onto the diamond for his first at-bat.

The glasses look didn't work for Harper, as he struck out in his first at-bat. So, a few innings later, he returned to the plate sans spectacles and promptly laced an RBI single.

Gotta be the contacts, right? Well, no - it seems as though he hit that single on pure instinct.

"I just wore those (glasses) for the first at-bat and tried to get (my contacts) in the best I could the second at-bat," Harper said to Jamal Collier of MLB.com between ends of the doubleheader. "Didn't get them in the second at-bat, then I got them in finally in my third at-bat and went from there."

Poor vision has been a problem for Harper long before he became the face of the Nationals. In 2011, while still toiling in the minor leagues, he told Dave Sheinin of The Washington Post that he was "blind as a bat" without prescription eyewear until a team optometrist fitted him with contacts that changed everything and helped get his career on track.

But if Harper's now hitting singles without any eyesight aids, maybe he doesn't need the help at all. He might just be that good.

(Video courtesy: MLB.com)