Los Angeles @ New York preview

Last Meeting ( Apr 27, 2010 ) LA Dodgers 5, NY Mets 10

How 'bout them Mets?
For all the negative talk thrown around the New York Mets during spring training, the team from Queens enters Wednesday's matinee against the Los Angeles Dodgers three games above .500 with a chance to sweep a second straight series. The Mets have won six in a row, including both ends of Tuesday's doubleheader with the Dodgers, and on Wednesday they face a pitcher who is making his major league debut.
John Ely will start for the Dodgers after being called up from Triple-A Albuquerque, where he was 2-1 with a 3.00 ERA. In 18 innings, he walked eight and struck out 12. Now he's in the big time and will face a hot Mets lineup that could be getting hotter if David Wright's performance Tuesday means he has put his struggles behind him.
Mired in major slump, Wright was 1-for-3 in Tuesday's first game, which the Mets won, 4-0. He then broke up with a 3-for-3, four-RBI performance in the second game that included his third triple of the season as New York posted a 10-5 victory. Wright became the eighth player in Mets history to record 1,000 hits.
Wright hit .171 in the previous 10 games, and his struggles in the middle of the Mets' lineup made their winning streak all the more impressive. That Wright has found his stroke is bad news for Ely, and the rest of the National League. New York put up 10 runs in the nightcap, and that offensive outburst was fueled by Wright's production.
Wright isn't the only Mets' hitter feeling good entering Wednesday's game. Luis Castillo had two RBIs in the first game on Tuesday, and rookie Ike Davis drove in three runs in the nightcap.
Wright and the Mets will look for their seventh straight victory, but starting pitcher John Maine will be looking for his first win of the season. Maine left his last start early due to muscle spasms and elbow pain in his non-pitching arm, but is expected to be 100 percent for Wednesday's contest. He is only 1-4 lifetime against the Dodgers, and Ronnie Belliard is 9-for-15 with a home run against Maine. Rafael Furcal (.545 in 11 at-bats) also hits Maine well.
The Mets have no history against Ely, a 23-year-old right-hander. But they are clicking so well right now that doesn't seem to matter. The majority of the Mets hitters had not faced Charlie Haeger before Tuesday, but they won the game.