Harvey as leader

His role on this team is growing quickly.   His leadership as innate as his winning.  From the NY Post:

On the play that ended his bid for a no-hitter in the afternoon, Jason Heyward drizzled a slow roller down the first-base line that seemed to check up like a perfect wedge shot just as Harvey was reaching for the ball. He turned and flipped to first base, which would have been a better idea if there had been an actual Met on first base.

Later, Lucas Duda, the first baseman, would be exonerated by Collins, who said, “He has no idea if the pitcher’s going to be able to get to the ball. He did the right thing.”

Duda wasn’t buying...

At inning’s end, Duda, quite sheepishly, walked over to Harvey.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “That was all my fault.”

And Harvey, eyes on fire but now lasered on Duda’s, practically deflected the words with his hands. “Don’t even give it a second thought,” he said. “We got out of the inning just fine.”

Later, Duda would say, smiling, shaking his head: “That’s a good guy.”

Such is the respect Harvey already commands with his teammates, the gravitas he already carries, after less than a year on the job. It was useful to see this, to be reminded of just how far Harvey has come and how quickly he’s arrived there, on the day that Wheeler arrived to try to play Koosman to Harvey’s Seaver, Darling to his Gooden, and did so splendidly.