They had chanted “Har-vey, Harvey” right at the start, and they were chanting it again after he drilled Chase Utley with a diabolical fastball in the middle of his back — payback in the fifth inning for Wilmer Flores (bruised hand) and Michael Cuddyer (bruised hand) plunkings.
New York loves stars, and it loves stars who have their teammates’ backs and won’t stand by idly when the law of the baseball jungle calls for retaliatory justice.
Translation: Do not mess with Matt Harvey, or Matt Harvey’s Mets.
“I think I got a little overamped, and that one got away,” Harvey said of the pitch that drilled Utley.