NEW YORK CITY, NY, November 1, 2015 – A rowdy crowd of nearly 45,000 erupts as Mets starter Matt Harvey struts off the mound after delivering eight innings of shutout baseball in a do-or-die Game 5 of the World Series. He has fanned nine Royals batters and has given his team — and his city— hope that a Mets miracle could still happen.
Matt Harvey wasn’t just a hero to a city that had previously been starved of serious playoff contention since at least the turn of the century; he was christened “The Dark Knight” — a moniker he embraced as he led the Metropolitans out of the darkness of mediocrity.