When Bryce Harper stepped to the plate in the first inning Saturday, a small group of Washington Nationals fans tried to get an "M-V-P!" chant going, with little success. Harper grounded into a double play. When Harper came up in the fifth with the bases loaded, a similarly small contingent greeted him with that three-letter chorus. His sacrifice fly capped a 10-pitch at-bat, tying the game. And after Harper added insurance in the seventh inning by tacking on the final runs of Washington's 5-2 comeback victory over the Miami Marlins with his 41st homer -- a no-doubt-about-it, two-run shot into the second deck in right field -- it sounded as if nearly every throat in the announced crowd of 32,768 at Nationals Park was telling the world who deserves to be honored as the most valuable player in the NL. Read more http://espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=350919120
