Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper partied into the night after celebrating the team’s second-consecutive NL East title.
Harper, 32, and the Phillies defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-5 in 10 innings at Dodger Stadium on Monday, September 15, to clinch the division.
Once back inside the clubhouse, Harper tore off his shirt for a beer and champagne-soaked celebration with his teammates.
Harper, who doesn’t drink, was seen guzzling through a funnel, but made sure to clarify his beverage of choice was apple juice.
“Just in case my wife is watching,” Harper said.
Harper and his wife, Kayla, have been married since 2016 and share three children: son Krew, 6, and daughters Brooklyn, 4, and Kamryn, 1. In March, the couple revealed they are expecting their fourth baby, a boy.
In the 8th inning of Monday night’s game, Harper hit a home run that gave the Phillies the lead before the Dodgers’ Andy Pages hit a home run in the bottom of the 9th to force extra innings.
“That’s a really good team over there,” Harper told NBC Sports Philadelphia in the locker room. “Hard fought game. They punched, we punched, they punched, we punched. To be able to hit a homer in a big situation, a big spot to put us ahead, just a lot of fun.”
While the Phillies allowed themselves to celebrate for one night, Harper kept things in perspective while looking ahead.
“We’re playing really good baseball right now and just got to keep going and keep understanding we’ve got a bigger picture,” Harper said. “We’ve got things on our mind that we want to win.”
While Harper stayed sober during the locker room festivities, the same could not be said for all of his teammates.
“I’m hammered,” Phillies star Kyle Schwarber could be heard saying in a video that circulated on social media.
Before the booze started flowing, Schwarber, who currently leads the National League with 53 home runs, was able to gush about the ability of this year’s Phillies team to battle through adversity.
“I feel like we’ve done such a great job this year,” Schwarber, 32, said after Monday’s game. “We’ve had a lot of really big injuries happen to us and we just have that next-man-up mentality. I felt like guys came up, they stepped up right away and they got the job done. That’s how you win big baseball games.”
The 2025 MLB Playoffs begin with the Wild Card Round on September 30.
