A tailor-made Matt Harvey moment ran into a greater force in the baseball universe:

A tailor-made Mets moment.

Harvey, the Mets’ attention-loving ace, deserved his night for the ages. He earned it.

He didn’t get it. So now he’ll have to wait until next season to produce the finale of his dreams, but gosh, the final chapter notwithstanding, his first wire-to-wire major league campaign proved pretty darn memorable.

“The last thing I wanted to do was not finish what I started,” Harvey said early Monday, after the Mets dropped a 7-2, 12-inning decision to the Royals in Game 5 and lost the World Series by a 4-1 count. “It’s disappointing. I felt so great all game. I felt so great in the ninth. I wanted the ball. I gave everything I had.”

With the loud backing of the fans, the right-hander convinced his manager, Terry Collins, to let him go back out for the ninth inning to protect his 2-0 lead, and that backfired, with the Royals tying the game against Harvey and Jeurys Familia.

Afterward, Collins fell on his sword, saying, “This was my fault.”

“I wanted the ball,” Harvey said. “Obviously, they wanted to go to Familia there, but the way the game was going, the way I felt, I felt like I wanted to control the game and go back out there.”

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The greatest mystery was why Collins didn’t lift Harvey after the leadoff walk to Lorenzo Cain; Eric Hosmer followed with a run-scoring double, and with Familia on the mound, Hosmer scored on Salvador Perez’s grounder to third as Lucas Duda threw wide to home plate, botching a potential game-ending play.

“If you’re going to let him face just one guy, you shouldn’t have sent him out there,” Collins said.

Really? It’s pretty standard for a starting pitcher to face a “One guy gets on and you’re done” mandate.

“I think there’s a lot of fingers to point at, but I wanted the ball,” Harvey said. “In a perfect world, it would’ve been a lot different, but it’s kind of how it played out.”

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Collins’ decision-making will be the hot topic in the immediate aftermath of the Series, yet that was just a symptom of a greater illness, the Mets’ massive late-inning failures and the Royals’ advertised relentlessness. Who had Familia blowing three saves in this series? Who had Duda making such a terrible throw?

Once the emotions die down, the Mets can look back and determine that their top project — the rebuilding of Harvey, in his return from October 2013 Tommy John surgery — proved a complete success, albeit a rocky journey. As long as Harvey remains healthy come Opening Day of next year.

With Sunday’s eight-plus-inning effort, during which he struck out nine and walked two, Harvey finished the season with 216 innings pitched on the season. He struck out 214 and recorded a 2.75 ERA.

“It’s unbelievable,” he said. “The confidence that we have going into the offseason — obviously, it’s going to be a short one — but I think the experience that we had, the guys who are coming back, I know that I am for sure gearing up for next year and am excited to return to these guys.”

Never can you take your eyes off Harvey. He is must-see TV, the most consistently interesting player on a team that is suddenly fascinating. Nevertheless, the Mets should seriously consider trading him this winter, because of his high-maintenance ways, his rising salary, his injury risk, the Mets’ starting pitching surplus and their need for controllable bats.

If they can’t get fair return, though, they should bring him back for 2016 with this guarantee: He will never be boring. He overcame surgery, poor run support and the innings-limits controversy in 2015. Maybe next year, he can overcome the largest hurdle of all: Mets karma.