What’s Next: Stellar arms star in NLDS rematch

Their five-game showdown in the 2015 postseason gave us a jolt of autumn electricity that showed us quite a bit of the present and future in big-time starting pitchers. And in the week ahead, they match up again for the first time since the National League Division Series.

What’s next for the Mets and Dodgers is four games in Dodger Stadium to begin another great week of Major League Baseball. From Monday to Thursday, we’ll get a heaping helping of majestic starting pitching, with Steven Matz, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard and Bartolo Colon slated for the now-first-place Mets, who beat the Dodgers in that epic series last year.

Meanwhile, Scott Kazmir, Alex Wood, Kenta Maeda and three-time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw are in line for the Dodgers, who share first place in the NL West with the Giants.

Fireworks should ensue, and not just from the bat of Colon, who shocked, stunned and thrilled the sports-loving world with his first career home run in San Diego on Saturday. Colon figures to get back in the batter’s box against Kershaw, which makes it one of the tougher assignments around. But both of these teams are back to their winning ways, which should give this week’s meeting a postseason vibe, even if we might be getting a bit ahead of ourselves.

“It’s only May,” Mets manager Terry Collins said. “We’ve got a long way to go.”

Indeed we do, but there’s a lot more cooking this week that could have major implications on the road to October.

Take the Cubs, for example. They walked off the Nationals in 13 innings on Sunday, have won seven in a row and nine of their last 10, and they are 24-6 after the first 30 games of the …

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