Orioles SP Matt Harvey dumbfounded over monthlong struggles

“It’s been a couple years now of being really horse[expletive],” Harvey said, per the Baltimore Sun. “It’s frustrating, the amount of work that I’m putting in between starts. Especially with the start tonight, I felt good, I had good stuff. Like I said, I missed spots.

“Those are the frustrating ones where you feel good and you feel like — I was throwing 95, 96 mph and got hit around. Those are the tough ones, the ones that I’ve been out of mechanics, there’s a reason for that and I guess an excuse for not pitching well. But for tonight, it was, I felt good. I just missed spots in situations where I can’t, and I did. It cost us the game.”

Harvey made an emotional start at Citi Field on May 12 with a 3.60 ERA and looking like a pitcher whose career was perhaps getting back on track. Unfortunately, Harvey was rocked that day, allowing seven runs in 4 1/3 innings. Since then, things have continued to take a turn for the worse.

The pitcher once known as the “The Dark Knight” has looked lost once again amid a disastrous downward spiral. In his past six starts, Harvey has allowed 31 earned runs over 19 2/3 innings and failed to make it through the fifth inning in any of those games.

The slide has left Harvey with a 7.41 ERA, which is the worst in MLB among pitchers with at least 10 starts.