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2011
Mets’ First Rounder Has Solid Debut
An article by Hojo's Mojo
Some good news from Port St. Lucie where 2010 first-round pick Matt Harvey made his professional debut on Thursday evening.
After a shaky start most likely from jitters, Harvey went on to pitch a solid game as the St. Lucie Mets defeated the Palm Beach Cardinals 1-0.
Harvey struck out nine and scattered five hits over five shutout innings.
“It was definitely good to get out there and throw,” Harvey said. “I was happy to be wearing a Mets uniform and I was pleased to help my team get a win.”
MiLB.com writes,
The 22-year-old right-hander walked two batters and gave up a hit in the opening frame, but he picked leadoff hitter D’Marcus Ingram off second base and escaped the inning unscathed.
The University of North Carolina product ran into more trouble in the second, surrendering consecutive one-out singles to load the bases. But he struck out the next two batters to preserve a 1-0 lead.
Once Harvey found his rhythm, he was comfortable on the mound. He struck out the side in the third and allowed one baserunner over his final three innings of work.
“I had some good adrenaline going,” Harvey said, “but I was reaching to the plate too much and I didn’t have any life on my fastball. After the first two innings I was able to get the ball down and get my fielders involved.”
By the way, Matt Den Dekker, who we saw a lot of in spring training, had two hits and scored the only run of the game.
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He’ll be in the bullpen rotting by next week. Oh wait, we have a FO with common sense now.
peavey also had a big night. Savannah maybe?
Good day for Met Minors.
Savannah Sand Gnats
Greg Peavy 5/IP 0/ER 2/H 1/BB 8/SO
D.Ceciliani 2 FOR 5 1/2B 1/HR 2/RBI 2/R
C. Vaughn 2 FOR 3 2/RBI 2/R
A.Rodriguez 1 FOR 5 1/2B 1/RBI
St Lucie Mets
M Harvey 5/IP O/ER 2/BB 5/H 9/SO
B-Mets
J.Stinson 5/IP 0/ER 2/H 1/BB 3/SO
Bisons also had good days from FMart, Tejada and Capt Kirk as well.
Remember who he pitched against too. Shelby Miller.. you’ll hear about him soon enough.. Top 5 Pitching prospect in all of baseball.. true ace potential according to baseball america and Harvey outdueled him. Should be a great season for pitching prospects this year for us.
Great to see one of our #1 picks living up to the hype.
We have been disapointed by Holt, Kuntz and the TJ surgery for the kid out of HS but great to see Harvey dominate plus show us his mental strength by working out of his 1st inning jam.
Hey guys where can I go online to follow our minor league affiliates, including schedule, stats, game box scores, etc. Thanks
I believe this year might be a good year for some our up and coming prospects and possible minor league championship for one, maybe two.