Matt Harvey shows up late to mandatory workout, was stuck in traffic

As far as game two goes, it will be the same scenario, different day for the Mets. “There’s not really anything else to say, they know what happened”.

The right-hander has cultivated an alpha-male image (with a willing boost from the Mets’ staff) and gets his initial opportunity on the October stage Monday in the first playoff game at 7-season-old Citi Field. And I’m a Matt Harvey fan; I’m a Matt Harvey fan. Along those same lines, I won’t venture a prediction or guarantee a result for the Mets this post-season, but let’s enjoy it while it lasts. “I know we had a mandatory workout”.

The impending National League Division Series between the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers marks the third time the two franchise will oppose one another in the postseason. The Dodgers have a 70-53 record against right-handed starting pitchers on the year, which is what they’ll be facing when deGrom takes the mound. “I just started warming up”.

“You’re talking to a 17th-round draft pick that was cut from his high school team until his senior year”, Hershiser said. “It’s never happened before and unfortunately it happened kind of at a bad time”.

Over his final five starts of the season, Harvey’s gone 2-1 with two no decisions but he hasn’t worked beyond the seventh inning and in his last four games the pitch count hasn’t exceeded 97. This is major news in New York because everything Matt Harvey does is major news in New York.

Matt Harvey has been under the media spotlight recently following comments made by his agent about Harvey’s availability to pitch in the postseason, considering the number of innings he’s already tossed this season, his first since Tommy John surgery. It all seemed to come together after the Mets acquired Yoenis Cespedes and he started bombing clutch home runs. The clubs split the four games started by Kershaw and Greinke.

“I think there’s a lot of fun being had on this ball club”, Granderson said. The team brought LHP Sean Gilmartin to Los Angeles as insurance for rookie LHP Steven Matz (back).

Sean Gilmartin is traveling with the team to Los Angeles in case Matz is not part of the roster. “I thought everything went great”. New York was just 19th in the game at 4.12 runs per game but 6th in homers at 187 so it wasn’t surprising to see this offense put up a few big numbers although it wasn’t needed.

“He’s 100 percent from what we saw in Arizona and from not having any complications here”, Zaidi said.