Twitter Roasted the Hell Out of Bryce Harper’s Hilarious Helmet Toss In Bench-Clearing Brawl

You’ve gotta see it to believe it.

Steve Huff

May 30, 2017

Baseball is a pretty peaceful game compared to football or hockey—until pitchers start beaning batters. Then fists often fly and everybody gets in on the fight. Bryce Harper launched one of these team fights between his Washington Nationals and the San Francisco Giants on Memorial Day, but in his rage he did something so ridiculous that social media ended having a field day ragging on it.

Giants pitcher Hunter Strickland had just struck Harper in the hip with what was surely a ferociously painful 98 mph pitch when Harper came for him, hurling his batting helmet as he ran. In the wire photo above the move looked vicious, but footage from the game revealed it was actually a comically awkward move.

Honestly surprised Bryce Harper landed a single punch because that helmet throw was awful pic.twitter.com/dNuuRoKong

— Tobi (@TobiBryant) May 30, 2017

Harper later explained that he certainly didn’t want to get suspended—as both he and Strickland were—but “sometimes you’ve just got to go and get him. You can’t hesitate. You either go to first base or go get him and I decided to go get him.”

Harper may have proven a point he felt he needed to make, but after video of his charging the pitcher hit social media, Twitter went after him.

Bryce Harper throws his helmet as accurately as a Browns QB throws a football

(Video via @DCBarno)pic.twitter.com/xylIhuR9nU

— NOTSportsCenter (@NOTSportsCenter) May 29, 2017