The Dodgers go into their three-game opening series clash against the New York Mets as the overwhelming favorites and will look to further entrench their position atop the National League West.
The Mets meanwhile lie third in a competitive National League east with a 10-8 record.
The Dodgers have a 12-9 record and will look to their star players Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts to get the job done.
The form of Dodgers hitters Teoscar Hernandez, Mookie Betts and Shoei Ohtani should prove too much for the Mets, who won their last MLB outing 9-1 against the Pirates.
The odds are a bit skewed in favor of the Dodgers as the New York team are coming into the game on a four-game winning streak, and a quadruple set of series wins – sweeping Pittsburgh 3-0, defeating the Royals 2-1, the Braves 2-1 and the Reds 2-1.
The Mets will look to Pete Alonso with 18 hits, two doubles, six home runs and nine walks, while the form of Brandon Nimmo cannot be ignored.
Nimmo has three doubles, a triple, 15 hits, two home runs and 11 walks.
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Breakdown: A Tale of Two Teams
Team Dodgers Mets Record 12-9-0 10-8-0 O/U Record 5-5-0 4-6-0 Spread Record 3-6-0 8-1-0 Injuries Walker Buegler, Connor Brogdon, Bobby Miller, Blake Treinen, Jason Heyward Max Kranick, Sean Reid-Foley, Tylor Megill, Brett Baty Key players to watch Teoscar Hernandez Sean Manaea - Time: 10:10 PM ET
- Venue: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California
- Live Stream: MLB Network, FUBO
The head-to-head record between the two teams over the past six years shows the Dodgers leading the Mets 17-10 and this trend is set to continue despite the incredible form of New York in the past three weeks.
The Mets have won two of their last three trips to Dodger stadium and in their last meeting doled out a 2-1 win over their more fancied rivals in this match-up.
In their last five games three wins by the Dodgers have been blow-outs, and in those three games the LA team scored 16 home runs and conceded 1. The Mets have only scored six home runs in total against the dodgers in their last five games overall.
The Mets do have form, and then some coming off a string of series wins over the Pirates Royals, Braves and Reds respectively. They will look to add the massive scalp of the Dodgers to this impressive recent record.
Our Picks:
Dodgers vs Mets – LA go into the game as favorites
The Dodgers start as the MoneyLine favorites at -200 while the on-form Mets can be had at +168.
The total has been set at 8.5 and there is a good chance of the in-form Dodgers hitters achieving that amount on their own.
While the odds look like a one-way contest the win probabilities according to aggregators is only 51% in favor of the home team, with the Mets at 49%. The implied probablities based on their odds are however 66.7% in favor of the Dodgers.
The Dodgers have entered the game as favorites in 21 games and have won 12 of those and have won six when favored by at least -200.
The Mets have won three of the five matches they have been underdogs, and only once have they been tagged as the losing team of odds of +168 or more, a gamer they subsequently won.
Dodgers ATS: The LA team go into this encounter with an against the spread record of 3-6-0 and combined with their opponents in this time span have gone over the total five times.
Mets ATS: The Mets have an 8-1-0 ATS record in their last ten games. The New York team have combined to hit on the over in six of their last 10 games with a total.
Pick 1: Dodgers Prop – Over/Under 8.5 – we are tipping the game total to go over the 8.5 mark.
The Dodgers have enough firepower to attain 9 runs on their own with Ohtani, Betts and Hernandez all in fine form, while the Mets are fresh off a 9-1 win over the Pirates, so we know they can also surpass that total on their own. Combined we could see 10+ runs.
Pick 2: Dodgers Prop Bet – Teoscar Hernandez hits over the 0.5 at odds of -196
Hernandez has collected a considerable 322 hits this season with four doubles, five home runs and seven walks.
