PITTSBURGH — The scuffling Philadelphia Phillies suffered a blow Saturday when they placed first baseman Bryce Harper on the 10-day injured list because of right wrist inflammation before their game against the Pirates.

Harper sat out Friday night’s 5-4 loss to the Pirates, and the move is retroactive to Friday.

The two-time National League MVP and eight-time All-Star is hitting .258 with 9 home runs, 34 RBIs and 8 stolen bases in 57 games. He missed five games from May 26 to June 2 with a bruised right elbow after being hit by a pitch from Atlanta’s Spencer Strider.

The Phillies are expected to play third baseman Alec Bohm at first while Harper is out, with utility player Edmundo Sosa taking over at third.

The Phillies have lost seven of their last eight games, going from leading the NL East by two games to trailing the New York Mets by 2½ games entering Saturday. Philadelphia had won 11 of 12 games before the skid.

Infielder/outfielder Otto Kemp‘s contract was purchased from Triple-A Lehigh Valley. The 25-year-old, who has yet to play in the majors, was hitting .317 with 14 homers, 55 RBIs and 11 steals in 57 games at Triple-A.

Kemp was the International League Player of the Month in April.

The Phillies also recalled right-hander Daniel Robert from Lehigh Valley and optioned righty Alan Rangel. Rangel, 27, made his major league debut Friday night, allowing two runs in three innings of relief.

This will be Robert’s third stint of the season with the Phillies. The 30-year-old has given up one run in two-thirds of an inning over two games.

Boston Red Sox fans keep hoping top prospect Roman Anthony gets promoted to the majors.

What he did for Triple-A Worcester on Saturday night was the latest evidence of why.

Anthony, ESPN’s No. 1-rated prospect, smashed a 497-foot grand slam for the WooSox in a 10-4 victory over Rochester during an International League game in Worcester, Massachusetts.

The 21-year-old put the WooSox ahead 9-4 in the eighth inning when he drove a 91.1 mph sinker from Carlos Romero deep over the right-center-field wall, a drive that left his bat at 115.6 mph.

According to Statcast, that was the longest home run in affiliated baseball this season.

“Got it and didn’t really miss it,” Anthony said, according to the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester. “So, it felt great.”

Added WooSox manager Chad Tracy: “That ball was murdered.”

In the majors in 2025, only one home run has traveled over 475 feet — a 484-footer hit by Mike Trout against the San Francisco Giants on April 19.

And since Statcast started tracking in the major leagues in 2015, only Nomar Mazara (505 feet in 2019), Giancarlo Stanton (504 feet in 2016), C.J. Cron (504 feet in 2022) and Christian Yelich (499 feet in 2022) have hit longer big league homers than Anthony’s on Saturday night.

A second-round pick in the 2022 amateur draft, Anthony is batting .290 with 10 homers and 29 RBIs in 57 games this season. He has two grand slams.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

TAMPA, Fla. — Miami Marlins starter Ryan Weathers pitched three innings after he was struck in the head by catcher Nick Fortes‘ throw to second base after the final warmup pitch before the bottom of the first inning Saturday.

Fortes’ throw hit Weathers on the top of his head and knocked off his cap. Weathers reached for his head as he fell to the mound. He was face down when athletic trainers rushed to tend to him.

Weathers, the son of longtime reliever David Weathers, needed only eight pitches to get out of the first inning against the Tampa Bay Rays. He was taken out after the third for “precautionary reasons.” He threw 57 pitches and gave up four runs, three earned, on three hits and a walk. The team said he will undergo further evaluation.

After the game, Weathers told reporters he was “good” and that he was grateful the ball hit him in the top of the head instead of the back of the head. When asked what eventually caused him to leave the game, Weathers said he wasn’t feeling right in the third inning.

“I just felt very disconnected out there a little bit just with like, just all that adrenaline left me,” he said. “… It was kind of like that episode of ‘SpongeBob’ where like everything’s on fire inside of his brain and I just felt like I was in pure chaos after that happened. So it was just kind of the right time to come out of the game there.”

The Marlins won 11-10 in 10 innings.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.