According to some of the beat writers on Twitter, manager Terry Collins was still pretty agitated and hot about last night when he showed up at the clubhouse this evening.
The anger was not directed at Matt Harvey, Sandy Alderson, or anyone else, writes Anthony DiComo, but just sheer frustration about the entire situation.
“Matt’s not happy about it and we’re not happy about it,” Collins said about being pulled after five innings. “If it keeps us from winning the pennant, I’m not going to be happy about it.”
He has every right to be angry, heck we all do, but we still have a job to do and the Mets need to focus on the Atlanta Braves tonight and that’s it. You can’t have stuff like this lingering and festering and getting everybody on the team down.
Collins also added that Harvey will make his next start against the Reds in Cincinnati, however which game specifically has yet to be determined.
Harvey will also pitch and indeterminate number of innings against the Washington Nationals in the last series of the year.
Jacob deGrom is also expected to pitch against the Reds and Nationals according to Collins, which keeps both deGrom and Harvey paired up and on a regular pace as the get ready for the postseason.
How much either of them pitch against the Nationals depends on whether the series has any real significance. Hopefully, the Mets would have already clinched by then. In that scenario, expect each of them to pitch no more than two or three innings as tuneup for the NLDS.
