PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Pitcher Matt Harvey walked into the Mets’ clubhouse here Tuesday morning, his head held high, as if nothing were wrong. The Mets had announced the day before that he was dealing with an unspecified, non-baseball-related ailment, and now the only physical sign that something had been amiss was the red hospital band around his wrist.
Harvey met with the news media and explained that he had had a blood clot in his bladder, that he passed it Monday and that he had undergone a minor procedure Tuesday to check out the bladder just in case. “I’m cleared to go,” he said.
The plan now, Harvey said, was to do light activity Tuesday and throw a few innings Wednesday, setting him up to make the Mets’ opening day start Sunday at Kansas City.
A few days ago, Harvey’s making that start seemed to be in doubt, when he noticed discoloration in his urine. “I didn’t really know what was going on,” he said. “I was having trouble using the restroom. Obviously any time there is, you know, discoloration in your urine, it’s not a great feeling. I didn’t know what was going on with my stomach.”
Doctors told him he had developed a bladder infection, which led to the clot.
“I guess the main issue is I hold my urine in for too long, instead of peeing regularly,” Harvey said, drawing laughter from reporters. “I have to retrain my bladder to use the restroom a little bit more, instead of holding it in. That’s what caused the bladder infection.”
Because the Mets had been so vague about Harvey’s condition, fans on social media in the last day or so had made crude remarks, trying to speculate what his ailment might be. Harvey scrolled through the notes, presumably out of curiosity. “Reading some pretty nasty thing about what might it be wasn’t very nice,” he said. “But I’m glad we figured it out.”
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