Mets Look for Series Win Against Yankees on Sunday Night Baseball

The New York Mets will try to win for the 13th time in 14 games when they visit the New York Yankees in a cross-town interleague MLB matchup on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball. The Mets (14-4) saw their 11-game winning streak end on Friday with a 6-1 loss to the Yankees (10-8) but bounced back on Saturday with an 8-2 victory behind starting pitcher Matt Harvey, who improved to 4-0 in his return season from Tommy John surgery. The Yanks saw their four-game winning streak end with the loss.

The Mets have won five of their last six games in the Bronx and ended a three-game skid against the Yankees overall with Saturday's victory, and they will now turn to SP Jonathon Niese (2-0, 1.50 ERA) in hopes of taking the series. Niese has allowed only one run in each of his last two starts, surrendering a solo home run in the seventh inning of a 7-1 win over the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday after six scoreless innings. He owns a career mark of 1-1 in four starts against the Bronx Bombers with a 2.05 ERA.

The Yankees will counter with Nathan Eovaldi (1-0, 3.12), who also allowed just one run last time out in a 5-2 victory against the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday. Eovaldi had given up five runs combined over his first two starts of the year, and he went winless in two starts against the Mets last season with a 7.15 ERA. He opened as a -135 favorite (bet $135 to win $100) at the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook.

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A couple Yankees could be in for big games on Sunday night, as designated hitter Alex Rodriguez is 3-for-8 lifetime versus Niese with a homer and likely wants to redeem himself after going 1-for-7 with two strikeouts in the first two games of the series. In addition, first baseman Mark Teixiera is also 3-for-8 during his career against Niese and has five hits and five RBI in the first two games of this series.

The total went OVER on Saturday for the first time in four games between the teams after cashing in three of the previous four meetings. The Mets have seen the OVER go 5-1-1 in their last seven games compared to 12-5-1 for the Yankees overall this year.

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