For the Mets’ first weekend at home this season, the schedule-makers served up a piñata. The Phillies arrived winless, hapless and hopeless, an easy target.
But after the Mets’ 5-2 loss to the woeful Phillies on Sunday, it was difficult to tell which one was the darling of the preseason prognosticators, and which had been universally expected to stink.
Matt Harvey (0-2) delivered his second lackluster outing of the season, allowing three runs and six hits in six innings with only three strikeouts. Harvey kept the Mets close until Odubel Herrera’s two-run homer in the sixth. He departed down 3-0, the owner of a 4.