Phillies put hot-hitting Harper on paternity leave before 4-game series

The Philadelphia Phillies have put first baseman Bryce Harper on paternity leave before a four-game series against the Cincinnati Reds. The team didn’t say how long the Las Vegas native will be gone. The 31-year-old Harper is on a six-game hitting streak, batting .381 during that span.

■ Rays: Tampa Bay placed closer Pete Fairbanks on the 15-day injured list with nerve-related issues. Fairbanks has experienced numbness in his fingers at times over the past few years. Fairbanks has had tests on his shoulder and arm, with additional testing to be done.

■ Brewers: Milwaukee pitcher Jakob Junis was taken away in an ambulance after being hit in the neck by a line drive during batting practice at Pittsburgh. In other team news, starter Wade Miley has been placed on the 15-day injured list with left elbow inflammation.

■ Courts: The baseball players’ association asked a federal court to confirm an arbitrator’s decision denying an attempt by a baseball agent at Bad Bunny’s Rimas Sports firm to block the agent’s decertification by the union. In a complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the Major League Baseball Players Association asked that a federal judge issue an order to confirm what the union said was a decision by arbitrator Michael Gottesman to deny a request for a temporary restraining order requested by William Arroyo of Rimas Sports and Noah Assad and Jonathan Miranda, two executives of the company.