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Matt Harvey expected to be available for Game 5 despite triceps bruise

CHICAGO -- Matt Harvey plans to start Game 5 of the NLCS -- if there is one -- despite a bruise on his pitching arm from a line drive in Game 1 that has gotten worse instead of better and is worrying Terry Collins.

"Good to go," a team spokesman said after Harvey played catch Monday at Wrigley Field.

Pitching coach Dan Warthen, when asked how Harvey looked playing catch, said, "Very handsome."

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Warthen added that his concern level about Harvey not starting Game 5 was "none.