It is one thing to celebrate being Comeback Kids, quite another to recognize that there never used to be a need for any comeback with Matt Harvey on the mound.
Whatever it was that the Dark Knight had found following his springtime nightmare he has lost again, and even as the surging Mets closed to within four games of the Nationals with an 8-6 victory over the Marlins, thanks to a tie-breaking double in the eighth by Yoenis Cespedes, the fact the alpha dog’s bark was once again worse than his bite was not lost on manager Terry Collins and pitching coach Dan Warthen, nor should it be.