The Nats beat up on Wheeler in the second and the third and the fifth, his last inning, the one he didn’t finish. Then the paths of the phenoms diverged for now. ![]() The Mets treated Wheeler like Harvey in the bottom of the first in that they put two runners on with one out and didn’t score. Zack Wheeler, clad in the 45 made famous by McGraw and Franco and Martinez, was making it all look very easy.īut this pitching to big league hitters only looks that way, especially at the beginning of the trail. Zack received the same “Feels Like The First Time” introduction from the AV department that Matt did last summer and lived up to the novelty of so-called Wheeler Day immediately. Wheeler drew a bigger crowd and set off more excitement as he paraded to the mound on the last day of June 2013, probably because the Harvey precedent has made us salivate our heads off at the idea that we could maybe get another one of those, whaddayacall, superstars practically out of the box. Of course it would go on to spark bigger and brighter than we could have imagined, and we all lived happily ever after every fifth day, but it was definitely on hold last August 10. Harvey settled in thereafter for six unremarkably effective innings, but whatever glow was extant for the kid who had set the Diamondbacks on fire in Phoenix was briefly extinguished in Flushing. Actually, Harvey was stomped on by the Braves in his first home inning of 2012: a walk, a fielder’s choice and a home run blasted by Jason Heyward. Zack Wheeler couldn’t have been better in his first Citi Field inning had his name been Matt Harvey. ![]() It felt farther off than usual Sunday despite the focus on one of the leading indicators that better days are directly ahead. Man, I thought, I’d love to someday return home from a parade full of pride for the Mets. Getting off my train after witnessing a 13-2 Mets loss in person - my personal-worst ninth consecutive loss at any of the ballparks the Mets have called home - I noticed a few people were arriving back on Long Island from New York’s annual Pride Parade. Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
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