It didn’t start out well for Matt Harvey, giving up a leadoff home run to Zack Cosart, and then having an Ivan DeJesus Jr. line drive go off his butt.
Maybe that will be the shot in the ass Harvey needs.
— All MetsTweets (@AllMetsTweets) April 27, 2016
I guess so. Maybe that line drive got him mad and he pretended the Reds were Clubber Lang. He held the Reds to one more run in the following six innings while striking out seven, giving up five more hits and walking one in a 5-2 Mets victory. Even the Cosart home run was more of a case of Cosart going and getting it rather than Harvey throwing a bad pitch. So while he’ll still be the lead story on Daily News Live later today, the question will be “Is the real Matt Harvey back?” instead of “Should we all go to Matt Harvey’s house to tar and feather him, and which diner should we go to afterwards?” Seriously … Yoenis Cespedes wins Tuesday’s game with a pinch hit home run, and the lead question on DNL was “Is Yo worth all that comes with him” like he’s Johnny Manziel or something. And of course, they show all the cars that he drove into spring training, because let’s continue that narrative for no good reason even though it means nothing now. Yeah, let’s continue to beat that dead horse … I just hope they didn’t kill the one that Cespedes rode in on and are beating that. So good job, Matt Harvey … you saved yourself a little grief after not looking too good for the first two batters.
Maybe it was Harvey’s butt sweat that created the ensuing magic. Lucas Duda dropped a ball on a transfer in the first inning, which was followed by Harvey saving the day with two strikeouts to end the inning. Then in the bottom of the first, a key play where Scott Schebler dropped a Duda fly ball to bring home a run instead of ending the inning. Then Neil Walker continued to rake, driving home a second run to give the Mets the lead. Walker would hit a dinger in the third inning to extend the lead to 3-1 and give him nine home runs in April to sit him at the same dinner table with Dave Kingman, Carlos Delgado, and John Buck. Then after the Reds closed the gap to 3-2, America’s three hole hitter Michael Conforto drove in two with a double to make it 5-2 and set it up for the bullpen combo of Jim Henderson, Hansel Robles, and Addison Reed to close it out. Once again, I distrust Addison Reed a little less today than yesterday. But hopefully not as much as tomorrow. Or Friday, since the Mets are off tomorrow.
No Hate List Today, But I’ll Leave This Here …
Noah Syndergaard dressed as Thor and wandered NYC streets today. https://t.co/Aozv18x1Qq pic.twitter.com/TynFfHEjuS
— SportsGrid (@SportsGrid) April 28, 2016
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