CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The fact that Bryce Harper slung his equipment bag over his shoulder and walked without help to the Phillies clubhouse before the second inning of Tuesday's 5-1 win over the Twins at Spectrum Field should have been a clue.

Another clue: He walked to his car without a limp.

“I’m totally fine,” he said later through a team spokesperson.

Harper left the game in the first inning after being hit on the top of the left foot by a pitch from Twins pitcher Sean Poppen.

Harper said he left the game as a precaution. He said he planned to hit only twice anyway. Phillies manager Joe Girardi said Harper suffered a bruised big toe, but he is expected to play as scheduled Friday against the Tigers.

Harper is batting .500 (8-for-16) with three doubles, three home runs, 11 RBIs and a 1.821 OPS in seven Grapefruit League games.

Harper, Phillies living life as normal, despite coronavirus concerns
Harper still plans to eat at restaurants, visit the grocery store and even attend sporting events as a fan, despite growing concerns about COVID-19.

Major League Baseball and other professional sports leagues on Monday closed clubhouses and locker rooms to media and non-essential personnel because of safety concerns regarding coronavirus.

“I think we’re all in unchartered territory,” Harper said. “We’ve never seen this, we’ve never done this, I think everybody is trying to do what is right, I guess you could say.”

But Harper and his teammates are not isolating themselves away from the ballpark, either.

“I live, man,” Harper said. “I don't worry about a disease or a virus. I live my life. I'm doing everything the same. I'm shaking people's hands, I'm high-fiving. I'm healthy. I'm 27. The people that are affected, it's a lot of older and maybe some young as well. But I just live my life.”

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Harper even offered to hug a pizza-loving baseball writer to prove his point.

(They did not embrace.)

So Harper feels safe?

“Yeah, around my guys I do,” he said. “Around my team, yeah.”

Said Rhys Hoskins: “I think it’s quite obvious that people are being a little more deliberate about their hygiene and making sure everything is sanitized, which you could argue should always be the case, but I have not yet changed the way that I live.”

Didi does it
Didi Gregorius singled to left field in the first inning. It earned him a standing ovation from the Phillies, including manager Joe Girardi. Teammate Ronald Torreyes even asked for the ball.

It was not a milestone hit for Gregorius. There are no such things in Spring Training. But it snapped his hitless streak this spring at 22 at-bats, which was enough reason to have some fun with Gregorius. Girardi wrote “0 for 82” on the ball.

“I finally broke a 0-for-82,” Gregorius said, smiling. “The funny thing is that [Torreyes] came to me and handed me the ball. I looked at it and Joe was walking by. I was like, ‘Who wrote this?’ He tried to look away, but I knew it was him. I figured it was him.”

Extra bases
• J.T. Realmuto (1.147 OPS this spring) hit a two-run home run to left field in the fourth inning. He spiked his bat into the turf after he hit it. He thought he flied out because he hit the ball on the end of his bat.

• Center fielder Adam Haseley went 0-for-3. Haseley, who is batting .143 (.408 OPS), is competing for playing time in center field with Roman Quinn, who is batting .200 (.810 OPS).

“It’s an evaluation there, too, right?” Girardi said. “Maybe it's possible you're mixing and matching them, setting up their strengths against pitchers' weaknesses. They both bring some strengths to the table. Roman, I think, his asset is his speed and the chaos that he can cause. On-base is important for those two guys. We're not asking them to hit 20 home runs. Continue to evaluate those two.”

• Right-hander Nick Pivetta threw five innings in a simulated game against Minor Leaguers at Carpenter Complex. He is competing for a job in the rotation against Vince Velasquez and Ranger Suárez. How does Girardi evaluate a rotation candidate in that setting?

“What I saw [is that] he could throw his curveball over at any time, he threw some really good changeups, his fastball had life, that's what I'm evaluating,” Girardi said.

• Right-hander Anthony Swarzak (7.20 ERA) and Drew Storen (3.60 ERA) each threw a scoreless inning. They are non-roster invitees competing for a bullpen job.

• The Phillies optioned left-hander Garrett Cleavinger and right-hander Mauricio Llovera to Triple-A Lehigh Valley. Infielder Darick Hall was reassigned to Minor League camp.

Up next
The Phillies do not play Wednesday, but they return to Grapefruit League action Thursday afternoon against the Rays in Port Charlotte at 1:05 p.m. ET. Phillies right-hander Jake Arrieta (1-1, 4.50 ERA) makes his third official start of the spring. He also pitched in a simulated game. He is tentatively scheduled to start the third game of the season March 28 in Miami. The game can be streamed on a team audio webcast.