The first two innings were as good as I’ve thrown a baseball, stuff-wise, in a very long time,” Harvey said. “It’s in there. It’s just a matter of getting through the tough part when things get into pressure situations and be able to get through that.
“I don’t think it’s an issue with stuff at all. I think it’s just being able to continuously attack like I did in the first two innings and kind of getting through that little block that I have right now with pressure situations.”
The Dark Knight also discussed the observation that I have made many times….that he kind of really is abysmal when runners are on base.
“I think the issue with runners on is I’m probably trying to pitch to weak contact too much instead of really going after guys like I obviously did in the first two innings and I have in the past,” he said. “I think, especially with what happened last start and going in that same direction today, I think thinking I needed to be ultra-spotty with location and perfect and get weak contact was a little too much of an issue.”
By the way, the reason I am posting this is to prove, unfortunately, that I can jump up and down all day trying to support Dom Smith, but in the end it will be Matt Harvey that gets the most clicks. Dom is right when he said that the most difficult part is that people still don’t care.
