Tonight's guest on The Daily Show is Matt Harvey and the panelists on The Nightly Show are Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer.
Matt Harvey is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. The Mets drafted him with the seventh overall pick in the first round of the 2010 MLB Draft. In his major league debut on July 26, 2012 against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Harvey set a new club record with 11 strikeouts while earning his first career victory. Harvey previously played at Fitch Senior High School in Groton, Connecticut and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Groton is about 30 minutes away from where I live!
He recently started pitching again after major surgery and performed poorly, resulting in media speculation about a dead arm.
Matt Harvey's 'dead arm' gets first test Friday
"You can see it in their face," he said later, as he discussed the common pitchers' fatigue known as "dead arm."
Sure enough, Harvey got knocked around by the Pirates on Saturday, sent to the showers after the worst start of his young big league career. He did it while throwing 96-mph fastballs. That might have been plenty had there been any life in the pitcher's arm.
But with six runs on seven hits in just four innings, the Pirates quite loudly told him that there was none left.
Harvey has consistently insisted that his arm feels fine, and he didn't deviate from the script following his start with the Pirates.
Still, Warthen said pitchers generally endure dead arm once or perhaps twice during the season. And it tends to crop up with all pitchers, regardless of whether they're coming off time missed to surgery like Harvey, or if they're pitching in a six-man rotation like the one the Mets are about to adopt.
But in Harvey's throwing sessions this week, the pitching coach liked what he saw. Harvey's mechanics looked smooth again.
There were signs of life.
On Friday, the Mets will learn if their ace has pushed through.
"I've seen that he's come out of the dead arm," Warthen said.
I expect plenty of talk of dead arms tonight.
Abbi Jacobson
is an American comedian, writer, actress and illustrator. She is best known for co-creating and co-starring in the Comedy Central series Broad City with Ilana Glazer.
Ilana Glazer
is an American actress and comedian. She is best known for co-creating and co-starring in the Comedy Central series Broad City with Abbi Jacobson.
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