Ruben Tejada's fractured right fibula will be a make-or-break moment for these Mets -- the break that breaks them or the galvanizing force that unites them all the more.
"We don't need any more motivation," manager Terry Collins said here Sunday, "but that certainly gives us some extra motivation going into [Monday] night."
Just as starting pitchers supposedly dictate momentum, so, too, can they set a team's temperature. That all eyes will be on Matt Harvey in this outing was the assumption all along. Harvey Days always come with a hype all their own.