Bryce Harper knows he can ask some MLB umpires about their calls and where the pitches were located — the exact scenario that he said happened after striking out in the first inning Friday.

But then Harper learned that Brian Walsh is not one of those umpires.

Walsh ejected Harper following his strikeout to end the frame for seemingly standing in the batter’s box and talking to Walsh.

After the Phillies’ 3-2, extra-inning loss to the Rockies, Harper hinted that he doesn’t consider Walsh — who has logged 109 games as an umpire since making his MLB debut in 2023 — a professional.

“I mean, I feel like John Tumpane, Alan Porter, Pat Hoberg, even Vic [Carapazza] at second tonight, there’s professionals in this league and there’s guys that are really good at their job and they understand it,” Harper told reporters, before referencing the number that Walsh was wearing. “I guess 120 didn’t understand it.”

Harper, who said he spiked his helmet initially after swinging through a curveball, took an 0-1 sinker that just touched the low and inside corners of the strike zone, and Harper recalled telling Walsh that, “Hey, I don’t believe that was a strike, but where do you have it.”

“And he kinda just was like, ‘Eh,’ and then I was just like, ‘No, where do you have it? I just want to know where you had it,’” Harper said. “Then he threw me out, and then I just told him, ‘I just wanted to have a conversation with you.’”

Harper stayed in the left-handed batter’s box and started to remove his batting gloves until Walsh tossed him, and then the star first baseman, along with manager Rob Thomson, pleaded with Walsh.

Carapazza, the crew chief, told a pool reporter that Walsh gave Harper “a long leash” and that the helmet spike, along with the argument about the pitch, both factored into the 24th ejection of his career.

“Again, didn’t cuss, didn’t scream or anything really,” Harper said.

Without Harper in their lineup the rest of the game, the Phillies’ six-game winning streak was snapped, and MLB’s best team (37-15) lost for just the second time in 11 games.

Colorado’s Ezequiel Tovar’s single in the 11th — two innings after Jacob Stallings tied it with a solo homer — scored Brenton Doyle, while Johan Rojas, who replaced Harper in the lineup following the ejection, went 0-for-4 and struck out to start the top of the frame to keep the automatic runner at second.

“I’m not trying to get thrown out in the first inning in Colorado, obviously, so it’s a bummer, man,” Harper said. “… Just kinda bummed that it even happened, because I don’t feel like it should have.”