New York Mets Host Dodgers, Kershaw After Worst Loss In 2015

Kershaw takes a 20-inning consecutive scoreless inning streak into Thursday’s opener against the Metropolitans. Clayton Kershaw gets the ball, and he’s 7-6 with a 2.68 ERA and 174 strikeouts this season.

Stay tuned to see if Kershaw can make some history tonight at Citi Field. He is 9-2 in 19 starts for the NL West leaders. The manager said it was possible Greinke could start later in the weekend against the Mets. Colon is 2-4 with a 6.03 ERA and 24 strikeouts in his career against the Dodgers. He also walked three batters for the first time in 2015 as he was again denied his fourth straight 10-win season. Primarily fastball, with a mix of some changeups and some sliders, but when he commands the fastball, the other stuff is just an accent. The lefty, who was the Dodgers first-round draft pick – seventh overall – in 2006 out of Highland Park High School in Texas, not only has a 0.00 ERA in his last 20 innings, his ERA over his last 10 starts is a microscopic 1.36 – striking out 101 in just 72 2/3 innings while walking only 11.

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The Dodgers (54-42) have been held to six hits in each of their last two games, and their. The Dodgers have won seven of their last eight games when scoring more than three runs.

At the plate, Ruben Tejada enters with a 10-game hitting streak, but Duda is batting.

After Wednesday afternoon’s debacle which saw the Washington Nationals put up three runs in the bottom of the eighth and come away with the rubber-game victory, the New York Mets will welcome in the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Mets left fielder Michael Cuddyer (left knee) has been out of the starting lineup for three games and didn’t sound optimistic that he’d return Thursday.