CHICAGO — Matt Harvey might need a good hug from teammates.
The Mets right-hander was possibly at his nadir emotionally following his latest brutal performance, and on Thursday manager Terry Collins tried to find a silver lining to the situation.
“As ugly as it may seem, one of the bright things we have going for us, we can run him back out there in five days, because if we were in a pennant race we couldn’t do it,” Collins said before the Mets lost to the Cubs, 14-6, at Wrigley Field.
A night earlier, Harvey allowed 11 base runners over 3 ¹/u2083 innings in which he was charged for five earned runs against the Cubs and said he was frustrated in the manner the last two seasons have unfolded.