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The Nationals apparently didn’t “Take Back the (Entire) Park.”

Jayson Werth testified to that.

Werth said that Phillies fans, whom Washington aimed to keep out of Nationals Park for the weekend series against Philadelphia, taunted him as he left the field with a broken left wrist following an attempt to catch a fly ball in his team’s 9-3 loss on Sunday night.

According to USA Today, Werth emailed Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post with the message: "After walking off the field feeling nauseous knowing my wrist was broke and hearing Philly fans yelling 'You deserve it,' and, 'That's what u get,' I am motivated to get back quickly and see to it personally those people never walk down Broad Street in celebration again."

Werth spent four years as the Phillies’ right-fielder before signing with the Nationals in the winter of 2010 as a free agent for $126 million over seven years.

Surgery “to repair a displaced left distal radius fracture,” according to federalbaseball.com, was successful, the Nationals said. Werth, 32, is to begin rehab immediately with strengthening exercises and then “progressive baseball activities” after six weeks.

Phillies fans had been invading Nationals Park in large numbers by making the relatively short trip down I95, but the Nationals called for a “Take Back the Park” weekend to prevent that from happening during the series.

Werth, however, said that the Philadelphia fans who did attend the series taunted him all weekend with chants of “You sold out!” and “You are Werth-less!”

Kilgore emailed that Werth told him “he will remember (the taunting Phillies fans) during his rehab.”

---JOE GREENE, NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM