Emotions high as Mets-Dodgers series shifts to New York

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By Larry Fine NEW YORK (Reuters) - A rough slide by the Dodgers' Chase Utley that broke the right leg of Mets' shortstop Ruben Tejada on Saturday has charged up emotions as the National League Division Series shifts to New York on Monday. Some considered Utley's aggressive effort to break up a potential double play simply hard-nosed baseball, while others saw it as an unnecessarily late, dirty hit. The win tied the best-of-five 1-1, ended Panamanian Tejada's season and could lead to on-field reprisals from the Mets when action resumes in front of a charged-up Citi Field crowd in the series that sends one of the clubs to the NL Championship Series.

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