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Dodgers vs. Mets score, live updates: NLCS heads to New York for Game 3 with series tied 1-1 The Mets swiped home-field advantage with their Game 2 win in L.A. The New York Mets are headed home with momentum in the 2024 National League Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Mets jumped all over Dodgers pitching in Game 2, scoring six runs in the first two innings, starting with Francisco Lindor’s lead-off home run in the first and punctuated with Mark Vientos’ grand slam in the second. Now, with the series even at a game apiece, the next three games are at Citi Field, starting Wednesday. New York, which clinched a playoff spot in a makeup doubleheader the day after the regular season was scheduled to end, now has home-field advantage in what has become a best-of-five to advance to the World Series. Luis Severino (1-0, 4.50 ERA, 12.0 IP, 10K, 2BB in 2024 postseason) gets the start for the Mets against Walker Buehler for the Dodgers (0-1, 10.80 ERA, 5.0 IP, 0K, 1BB) in Game 3. How to watch Dodgers at Mets, NLCS Game 3 (Series tied 1-1) Time: 8:08 p.m. ET Location: Citi Field | Queens, NY TV channel: FS1 Streaming: Fubo, Fox Sports app

Some Social Security recipients will receive an extra check next month: It may be hard to believe, but November is fast approaching. With it will come Election Day, Thanksgiving, and, for some seven million Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries, an extra check. It’s all thanks to a quirk in the 2024 calendar. SSI recipients typically receive one payment a month from the Social Security Administration, which oversees the program. These checks are usually dispersed on the first day of the month, but when that day falls on a weekend or a holiday, the payments are sent out on the previous weekday. It’s only been a couple of months since such a blip occurred. In August, SSI beneficiaries received both that month’s payment and September’s check. Then in September, no checks were dispersed. Will Social Security be around when I retire? November will be like August, with beneficiaries receiving that month’s check as well as December’s payment since December 1 falls on a Sunday. However, thanks to another wonky calendar in 2025, payments will be dispersed in December. The first days of January, February, and March all fall on holidays or the weekend. Because of this, January’s benefits will be sent on December 31. There will be an SSI payment on January 31, but it is February’s payment. The SSI payment on February 28 is technically March’s payment. Then, no payments will be sent in March, followed by a normal April. Regardless of when the payments arrive, SSI beneficiaries will still receive all of their intended checks. However, receiving two SSI payments in one month and none in another may lead to some slight budget adjustments. According to the agency’s payment calendar, if you receive regular Social Security benefits, not SSI, you will be unaffected in November and December. You may, however, be impacted by the cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, announced by the Social Security Administration earlier this month. The latest COLA is 2.5 percent, down from 3.2 percent last year and 8.7 percent in 2022, reflecting easing inflation. COLAs are calculated with a formula based on the Labor Department’s Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W).