The radar gun revealed no signs of trouble.
Dan Warthen knew better. The Mets pitching coach had watched Matt Harvey warm up just before his last start. He didn't like what he saw. What came next he could almost predict.
"You can see it in their face," he said later, as he discussed the common pitchers' fatigue known as "dead arm."
Sure enough, Harvey got knocked around by the Pirates on Saturday, sent to the showers after the worst start of his young big league career. He did it while throwing 96-mph fastballs. That might have been plenty had there been any life in the pitcher's arm.