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How to bet Sunday night's Dodgers-Mets matchup

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For the third straight week, ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball brings viewers a taste of the National League, and in the process it showcases the 2015 NL pennant winners for the first time this season.

The New York Mets enter Sunday in first place in the NL East, but thanks to the fireworks surrounding Saturday's contest, most everyone's focus is on the events of the last 24 hours.Noah Syndergaard's fastball behind Chase Utley may have been intended as a message, but Utley ended up doing what he's been doing for more than a decade: delivering a crushing blow to Mets fans, this time with his 37th and 38th career home runs against the club, easily the most he's hit against any other team.

If recent history is any indication, the Los Angeles Dodgers may not need a pair of home runs tonight, as one run is frequently all that's needed to get a win with Clayton Kershaw on the mound. He's making his sixth start this month, and in the first five he's recorded more shutouts (3) than walked batters (2). Facing off against Bartolo ColonĀ in the rubber game of this series, Kershaw takes the mound looking for a sixth straight win.

Here at Chalk, we have one of our own riding a five-game winning streak. Joe Peta (5-1, +4.48 units) looks for his sixth straight win in this space and dives into probability theory to support tonight's play, while Andrew Lange (1-4, -3.28 units) explains how the Kershaw-Colon matchup makes this game a tough one to bet.

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