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• Dodgers vs. Mets. You will have to wait a day to see this series begin (1:09 p.m. Wednesday, ESPN), but when you do, you will be seeing two teams on multi-game winning streaks. The Dodgers won their last seven games, and the Mets won their last four. Most intriguing game tonight? Tigers at Yankees (5:19 p.m., Channel 11). You either love the Yankees or hate them, and that is why the networks always pick them for the prime-time game.

• Delta Air Lines named a plane after the New York Mets' All-Star third baseman, David Wright, on Monday at LaGuardia Airport. The plane, an MD-88, is called The Wright Flight, and it shuttles between New York, Boston and Washington. The plane's name and Wright's signature and jersey number (5) are next to the boarding door. Wright, 23, often joked while growing up in the suburbs of Norfolk, Va., that he was related to Orville and Wilbur Wright, who are credited with making the first successful flight on Dec. 17, 1903. "I use Delta to go home to visit family and friends," Wright said Monday, "so this will be pretty cool to take a plane named after me when I go home."

• More than in any other team sport, the non-headliner is liable to decide a playoff game in baseball. In the 1960 World Series, the score was tied in the bottom of the ninth of Game 7 when the Pirates got a Series-winning homer from second baseman Bill Mazeroski. He had hit 11 homers that season. In last year's World Series, the White Sox got game-winning homers from Scott Podsednik (no homers in the regular season) and Geoff Blum (six homers in the regular season). And remember Kurt Bevacqua? He hit one homer in the 1984 regular season, then hit two off the Tigers for the Padres in the World Series. "The lesser players don't have the big burden of carrying a team," Tigers third base coach Gene Lamont said, "and maybe that makes it a little easier for them to perform."

• Nick Swisher, first baseman, Athletics. Swisher, 25, completed his second full season with the A's. He hit 35 homers and had 95 RBIs, although he struck out 152 times. Swisher played baseball at a traditional football school, Ohio State, and was drafted in the first round in 2002 by Oakland, using a draft pick acquired from the Red Sox as compensation for the loss of free agent Johnny Damon. Swisher's father, Steve Swisher, caught 509 games from 1974 to 1982 with the Cubs, the Cardinals and the Padres.

• "We don't come out in spring training saying we want to win the wild card. We come in saying we want to win the West. We wanted to start off at home. We didn't want to fly across the country and play the Mets in New York. Being able to start out at home is big." - Adrian Gonzalez, Padres first baseman