Busloads of Phillies fans are coming to Nats Park for Bryce Harper’s return
A Phillies fan holds up a sign at Nationals Park in 2012. By Scott Allen Scott Allen Reporter covering D.C.
When the Phillies and Harper agreed to a deal Feb. 28, DiBiaggio called the Nationals’ ticket office and paid for his tickets in full. As a thank you, he also purchased an additional 30 tickets in the same section for an August game and asked that they be donated to the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy.“We’re almost sold out,” DiBiaggio said of his upcoming D.C. trip in a phone interview Monday. “We have 10 buses already filled, and some people are meeting us down there.
— Phans of Philly February 28, 2019 In fact, the first trip DiBiaggio planned was to Opening Day at Nationals Park in 2010 for Roy Halladay’s Philadelphia debut. The Phillies won, 11-1, in front of thousands of their own fans, thanks in part to former Nationals team president Stan Kasten practically rolling out the red carpet for them.
“I haven’t seen the interest on sports talk radio and everything this high since probably the 2011 season,” he said. “Everyone got a little bit scared the other day when [Harper] got hit in the foot [by a pitch]. We kind of dodged a bullet there.”Nationals fans have plenty of reasons to be optimistic about 2019, too, and Harper joining the Phillies should provide a jolt to a one-sided rivalry. Washington and Philadelphia haven’t both finished above .
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