If Matt Harvey had pitched as well as he has thus far in the second half of the season, he might not have been around to make Friday night’s start for the Orioles.
Instead, the veteran right-hander’s struggles leading into the All-Star break kept contenders uninterested, even as he came out of it with consecutive starts of six shuout innings. Friday’s trade deadline passed with Harvey still a member of the Orioles. That meant he could keep that scoreless second half going in a 4-3 victory against the Detroit Tigers.
Pitching a season-high 6 u2153 innings, Harvey became only the fourth Oriole in the past 40 years with three consecutive starts of at least six innings without allowing a run, joining Kevin Gausman, Fernando Valenzuela and Jim Palmer.