Monday Morning Gripes

With the Phillies leaving town with a salvage game in a three game set, they leave behind a mass of irate Nats fans. During the first inning, Cole Hamels of the Phillies nailed Bryce Harper in the back intentionally to "send a message". What that message was, only God knows, but in a sort of retaliation move, Harper, who advanced to third, stole home. But for official retaliation, Jordan Zimmerman plunked Hamels in his first AB. Now to most fans, that would've squashed it. But when the Phillies fans who, unsuccessfully, tried to take over the park cheered Jayson Werth's broken wrist, it reopened the wound. In the post presser, Hamels openly admitted to hitting Harper so a suspension is more than likely to follow.