NEW YORK — The New York Mets’ status as a postseason threat to the Dodgers rests largely on the potential for Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer to dominate a seven-game series.

The Dodgers won’t face old friend Scherzer in this three-game possible sneak preview. But they got a full dose of deGrom on Wednesday night. The two-time Cy Young Award winner dominated the Dodgers for much of the night, taking a no-hitter into the fifth inning and holding them to just three over seven innings in a 2-1 victory.

The only Dodger immune to deGrom’s powers was Mookie Betts. He provided the Dodgers’ only run of the night with a solo home run in the sixth inning, jumping on an 0-and-1 slider that rolled over the plate.

It was Betts’ fifth home run in his last five starts, his ninth in August and 32nd of the season. That ties his career-high set in 2018 when he was the American League’s Most Valuable Player.

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Other than that, the Dodgers were overmatched by deGrom. He retired 13 of the first 14 Dodgers batters, walking Trea Turner in the first inning and not allowing a hit until Justin Turner bounced a single through the left side with one out in the fifth.

Making just his sixth start of the season due to a stress fracture in his scapula that delayed his season debut until Aug. 2, deGrom went seven full innings for the first time. He struck out nine and got 25 swings-and-misses (15 on his slider alone). Nineteen of his 93 pitches rounded up to 100 mph or higher.

DeGrom didn’t need much help but when he needed it he got it. Mets center fielder Brandon Nimmo went into the wall near the 408-foot marker and reached over to steal a home run from Turner in the seventh inning.

That drive could have tied the score. The Mets’ only offense to that point against Dodgers starter Tyler Anderson was a two-run home run by Starling Marte in the third inning.

That was all they would get against Anderson who went seven innings, scattering eight hits.

More to come on this story.