Bryce Harper exited Wednesday's Grapefruit League game against the Blue Jays. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Consider disaster likely averted for Bryce Harper. The Phillies' first baseman was hit by an errant Richard Lovelady sinker in the sixth inning of Wednesday's Grapefruit League game against the Blue Jays in Dunedin. It was only 92 mph, but there was no getting out of the way of this one: https://twitter.com/PhilsTailgate/status/1894842292546216453 Harper has a bruised right triceps, and Rob Thomson isn't concerned, according to The Athletic's Matt Gelb. Harper won't be in the lineup on Thursday, but he wouldn't have been anyway, per NBC Sports Philadelphia's Corey Seidman. It could have been much worse. In fact, it has been: The pitch looked a lot like the one from Blake Snell that fractured Harper's thumb and sidelined him for two months in the 2022 season, though Lovelady's was even farther inside. The year before that, Harper was hit in the face by a 97-mph Génesis Cabrera fastball, and though he only missed a couple days, his three-week slump immediately thereafter was his only funk of that MVP season. Harper was also hit by a high-and-in fastball last September from Bowden Francis, also of the Blue Jays, but he was fine. Of course, that's not to suggest any intentionality behind any of them. But the way-high-and-way-in scare is something that understandably has frustrated Harper before, including last May, when he managed to just get out of the way of a Kyle Harrison fastball in San Francisco, which prompted the benches to clear.