Dark start for Dark Knight

Three games into 2016 and Met fans — myself included — have watched in horror as Matt Harvey, the Dark Knight of Gotham, has proven all too mortal.

Here, via a screen shot from Baseball-Reference, are the pitching lines from his first three starts:
It’s a very un-Harvey-like line, but other aces have gone through similar stretches. Check out these numbers from Clayton Kershaw’s first three starts in 2015:
Kershaw’s, of course, righted his ship — after a while. After nine starts, Kershaw fell to 2-3 with a 4.32 earned run average, before running off a string of typical Kershaw outing and finishing 16-7 with a 2.13 ERA.
Kershaw is a special pitcher — but so is Harvey. Does it mean the Dark Knight will rebound like Kershaw? No way to know — and that’s the point. It is too early to panic. 
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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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