Tuesday was Harvey Day, though you could have been excused for identifying it as simply Tuesday. Matt Harvey, as has been the case most of his six starts this season, pitched well enough to not lose had he been facing the 2016-to-date version of himself. Unfortunately, he was up against Matt Wisler, and Wisler’s been […]
 
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The only thing missing from Wednesday night’s game was Keith Hernandez requesting that someone put a tent on the circus. This is not a blueprint for constructing a satisfying baseball game: a seemingly much reduced Matt Harvey giving up a home run to Zack Cozart on the fourth pitch thrown, followed by Ivan De Jesus smacking the seventh pitch […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  John Buck, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Scott Schebler Matt Harvey? Not fixed. If anything, Harvey looked worse than he did in Cleveland. The velocity was up a little, perhaps, but still not where it needs to be, and the pitches were up a lot. Harvey staggered through five innings, bailed out by Yoenis Cespedes‘s insane throw to the plate and a bit of luck. With […] Tonight your still-winless recapper takes on the question all of us are suddenly forced to take on: What’s wrong with Matt Harvey? To be sure, it’s April. If you’re panicking in April, you’re either new to this or ought to broaden your interests. Walking across Brooklyn on a beautiful day, Joshua and I had a long […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Indians, Matt Harvey, Neil Walker, PItching, Yoenis Cespedes It wasn’t exactly on my bucket list — unless you’re redefining the term to mean “stuff that makes me want to puke when I think about enduring it” — but I can now say I’ve been through an Opening Day that I was dreading. Dreading Opening Day? What a bizarre thing for a lifelong fan to say. […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, David Wright, Eric Hosmer, ESPN, Matt Harvey, Mike Moustakas, Opening Day, Royals, Yoenis Cespedes The Mets were the champions of the National League in 2015 without anybody being officially judged particularly valuable. The Baseball Writers Association of America has an award that declares who’s Most Valuable, and no Met got anywhere near it. Twenty National Leaguers were named on BBWAA ballots and only two of those names belonged to […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Awards, Curtis Granderson, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Willie Mays, Yoenis Cespedes, Yogi Berra I straggled home from Game Four of the World Series Sunday at 2:00 AM EDT, which in the instant it took me to look up at the clock, became Sunday at 1:00 AM EST. Standard Time had returned and the Mets were still playing baseball. Not very well on the eve of us gaining our wee […] 109 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Mathematically Eliminated, Matt Harvey, Royals, World Series Ending What used to be trivia is now widely disseminated fact, so there’ll be no wowing you with the historical nugget that the Mets have never won the first game of a World Series. Don Buford, Ken Holtzman, Bruce Hurst, Jose Vizcaino and Alex Gordon — among others — have seen to that. And if the […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Alcides Escobar, Alex Gordon, Bartolo Colon, Believe, Car Trouble, Chris Young, Curtis Granderson, Don Buford, Eric Hosmer, Fathers and Sons, Jeurys Familia, Marathons, Matt Harvey, Michael Cuddyer The physicist Leonard Mlodinow has something to say about baseball narratives. This is from The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (via this Freaknonomics post): …if one team is good enough to warrant beating another in 55% of its games, the weaker team will nevertheless win a seven-game series about four times out of 10. And […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Juan Lagares, Kyle Schwarber, Matt Harvey, Travis d'Arnaud “Hello? Anyone still up?” “I’m not hungry. They’ve got great food at work. I’m still wired, though. I just had to drop by and tell somebody […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Chase Utley, Citi Field, Coming of Age Moments, Gil Flores, Matt Harvey, Pete Rose, Ruben Tejada, Rusty Staub, Shea Stadium, Yoenis Cespedes |
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