Carlos Beltran, CC Sabathia and the New York Yankees took advantage of Matt Harvey’s early exit, beating the sloppy Mets 11-2 Sunday night to tighten the AL East race just in time for a critical trip to Toronto.
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Harvey’s seemingly nonsensical departure left a lot of Mets fans scratching their heads last night, including I. The Mets are hunting for a playoff berth, albeit its first in nine bleeping years, and management was forced to surrender to its “diva” of an ace and his agent’s demands of limiting innings. Harvey would’ve been out by then anyway and that was enough for them to have lost the game standing alone.
Harvey was pulled after five innings with a 1-0 lead. “It was the ideal storm”, Collins said. “You couldn’t have set it up any worse than it was”.
Simply, the Mets can’t treat these regular-season games – let alone postseason matchups – as if these are spring-training games from Port St. Lucie, Fla.
The Yankees will conclude their series with the Mets tonight at Citi Field, but the matchup brings back memories of a different place that the Mets, and sometimes the Yankees, called home.
RHP Carlos Torres returned to action Sunday night, when he gave up three runs on one hit and two walks while striking out one over two-thirds of an inning in the Mets’ 11-2 loss to the Yankees.
And in the postseason? Patrick Corbin scattered five hits in seven innings before the Diamondbacks’ bullpen completed the combined seven-hitter. Is it 60 pitches?
“He’s a tremendous competitor and moving forward I want this kid on the pitching staff”, he said. There have been things that you do that you don’t necessarily think that there might be a better way that in the past it’s been done, it doesn’t happen today. The club has a two-game lead over the Yankees in the AL East. The Yankees already have hit 53 more home runs than they did all last season.
The team on the other side needed this win more than the Mets.
His teammates greeted him with high-fives & pats on the back for his performance. So for round one of this Harvey innings limit, Scott Boras won the battle.
[Check out Big League Stew on Tumblr for even more baseball awesomeness.]. Veteran Jon Niese has no innings limits, but he is 0-1 with an 8.16 ERA in September.
Beltran lined an 0-1 slider to the centerfield wall to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead. You adjust to it or get out. Maybe he’s totally wrong about how to go about ensuring it. We know less about how to prevent torn pitcher ligaments than we do about most things in baseball. “We just didn’t make any pitches”. Buster Olney suggested that the best course of action could be for Alderson to trade the right-hander this offseason, as the chances of them resigning Harvey are nearly zero, and they could capitalize on his value now. It’s the best for the organization. We’ll hit on all of the biggest moments from the day that you may have missed, while providing highlights, photos and interesting stats. He does not agree with these Harvey rules, and has to go with the plan.
Harvey’s next start will come in Cincinnati later this week, Collins confirmed.
Harvey has now compiled 176 2/3 innings this season. Take it, or leave it.
Not knowing what they can expect from Harvey is a hard situation for the Mets, who remain seven games clear of Washington in the National League East and have trimmed their magic number to eight to clinch the division.
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If the Mets do blow that lead, it ain’t gonna be because of Matt Harvey. “He’s a tremendous competitor and, moving forward, I want this kid on the pitching staff”. “We couldn’t really string anything together and yeah, when he did come out, we got some guys on base”. “He wasn’t. And I guess we have to deal with that”.
