If you told fans back in spring training that Matt Harvey would be the Mets’ fourth-best starter and that Jacob deGrom would have missed a few starts heading into early May, the assumption would be the club would find itself in Yankees territory — the bottom rungs of the division.
The good news appeared to be that Harvey had increased his strikeout total in each of his first five starts. The bad news was he started at two and got up to seven. Then on Tuesday against lowly Atlanta he managed just four over 5 2/3 mostly uninspired innings in an eventual 3-0 loss.