LOS ANGELES — Never has a schedule provided a sharper contrast than this Mets itinerary that has them transitioning from home games against the all-time bad Rockies, who are on a crash course to infamy, to travel here the very next day to play the $400 million Dodgers, when healthy perhaps the greatest and deepest collection of baseball talent ever assembled.
Although more than half of LA’s ultra-talented pitching staff is currently inactive, they still lead baseball’s best division and present quite a challenge, as the Yankees learned again this past weekend when they managed to salvage only the finale following a hellacious beatdown that clinched the series for LA.
The danger for the Mets in facing (and naturally sweeping) 9-50 Colorado in the preceding series is that they haven’t faced an honest-to-goodness big league team in days. After what’s tantamount to a three-day respite, starting here late Monday night, they will see 50,000-plus not-so-laid-back Los Angelenos and all the stars they come to cheer.
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