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Mets ace Harvey shines in Subway Series debut

In his Subway Series debut last night, facing the team he grew up rooting for, Matt Harvey was magnificent.

The Mets’ ace fired eight innings of one-run ball, surrendering six hits and walking no one in his team’s 2-1 walk-off win over the Yankees at Citi Field. Harvey struck out 10, firing 98 mph fastballs and 91 mph sliders.

“He just has the right stuff,” Ike Davis said. “He’s exactly what you want as a starting pitcher.”

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It’s hard to argue otherwise. The 24-year-old flame-throwing righty remains undefeated on the season at 5-0. Harvey’s ERA is a sparkling 1.85 through 11 starts. He’s allowed more than two runs in a game just twice all year.

In his last seven starts, Harvey is 1-0 with six no-decisions. The Mets have scored only 11 runs for him during that span.

Last night Harvey also survived being drilled in the ribs by an Ichiro Suzuki comebacker in the seventh inning. The smash grazed Harvey’s elbow, too, but he stayed in the game and declared afterward he was fine.

“I’m all right,” he said.

Harvey grew up a Yankees fan in New London, Conn., and he attended what he estimated to be a half-dozen Subway Series games. His favorite player was Yankees right fielder Paul O’Neill.

The only run Harvey allowed last night in his Subway Series debut came in the sixth inning. He gave up Brett Gardner’s leadoff single to right field, then saw Marlon Byrd bungle the hit by letting it go off his glove and having Gardner move to second on the error. Harvey retired Robinson Cano on a groundout as Gardner moved to third and then got Vernon Wells on a foul pop-up. But Lyle Overbay’s single to center off a changeup brought Gardner in.

It appeared — thanks to Hiroki Kuroda’s seven shutout innings — Harvey would lose 1-0. But the Mets’ stunning rally off Mariano Rivera changed it.

“The biggest thing was getting the win,” Harvey said. “Just being out there and seeing what they did, everybody played their heart out.”