Matt Harvey's second career postseason start was a big improvement upon the first. It's not that the first was terrible, but he had looked fairly pedestrian against the Dodgers in the NLDS. In the NLCS opener against the Cubs last night, however, he looked fantastic.
Harvey took a perfect game into the fifth inning before giving up a run in that frame and gave up just two runs in seven-and-two-thirds innings with nine strikeouts and two walks. He generated 17 swinging strikes on his 97 pitches, an excellent rate of 17.5 percent.
Harvey's four-seam fastball averaged 95.