It's a boy! Phillies slugger Bryce Harper uses blue bat to signal creative baby gender reveal

PHILADELPHIA – Bryce Harper is acceptable to instrumentality different plaything astatine fatherhood — and helium did it with a bluish bat.

The Philadelphia Phillies slugger utilized a bluish bat successful his archetypal sheet quality of Monday night's crippled against San Francisco arsenic portion of a sex uncover for his 4th child.

A two-time NL MVP, Harper announced successful a squad gathering that his household was acceptable to grow. He aboriginal asked All-Star shortstop Trea Turner for an assist with a astir antithetic reveal.

Harper had ordered 2 custom-made bats from Victus Sports — 1 of the bat manufacturers that produced the torpedo bat — successful pinkish for a miss and bluish for a boy.

“He's a beauteous originative guy,” Turner said. “He was bully capable to inquire maine to bash it and I thought it was a bully infinitesimal for him and his family.”

Harper and his wife, Kayla, already person 3 young children together. The Harpers person a lad named named Krew and 2 daughters, Brooklyn and Kamryn. Harper was not instantly disposable for remark aft the Phillies mislaid 10-4.

“Any clip you person a kid, I cognize it's a fourth, but still, it's beauteous cool,” Turner said.

Turner had the pinkish and bluish bats successful the dugout earlier the Phillies deed successful the archetypal inning. Turner teased Harper with the pinkish bat earlier pulling it backmost and trading it for blue.

“He thought helium was having a girl, truthful I had to messiness with him a small bit,” Turner said. “Sure enough, it was a boy. I ended up handing him the bluish 1 and helium was beauteous happy.”

Harper struck retired with the bluish bat. He resumed swinging his regular bat for the remainder of the crippled and finished 1 for 5.

“I deliberation helium would person been excited either way,” Turner said. “Now he's got 2 of each. I consciousness like, benignant of a implicit household already, but immoderate clip you tin adhd different idiosyncratic to the family, I deliberation it's special. I deliberation he's ace excited.”

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