Teenage (Four-) Base Land

According to our friends at Elias, last night Bryce Harper became the third teenager ever with more than one multihomer game in a season as a teenager, joining Ken Griffey Jr. in 1989 and Mel Ott in 1928.

Harper now has 17 homers as he continues to move up the teenage home run list:

Rk	Player	HR	Year	Age	Tm	Lg	AB	RBI	BB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1	Tony Conigliaro	24	1964	19	BOS	AL	404	52	35	.290	.354	.530	.883
2	Mel Ott	18	1928	19	NYG	NL	435	77	52	.322	.397	.524	.921
3	Bryce Harper	17	2012	19	WSN	NL	437	47	47	.259	.330	.449	.778
4	Ken Griffey	16	1989	19	SEA	AL	455	61	44	.264	.329	.420	.748
5	Mickey Mantle	13	1951	19	NYY	AL	341	65	43	.267	.349	.443	.792
6	Ed Kranepool	10	1964	19	NYM	NL	420	45	32	.257	.310	.393	.703
7	Phil Cavarretta	9	1936	19	CHC	NL	458	56	17	.273	.306	.376	.682
8	Robin Yount	8	1975	19	MIL	AL	558	52	33	.267	.307	.367	.674
9	Phil Cavarretta	8	1935	18	CHC	NL	589	82	39	.275	.322	.404	.726

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Generated 9/6/2012.

Take a look at the location of the pitches for the two homers hit last night

Harper put one of these outer half pitches into the left-centerfield ionosphere, the other to right-centerfield.

Harper is hitting .241 on pitches on the outer half of the plate

Harper has 10 homers on the outer-half of the plate pitches

Harper is hitting .318 on pitches on the inner-half of the plate

Harper has pulled five homers on inner-half pitches