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Rookie Brett Batty hit a home run in his first swing in the big leagues, and Sterling Marte went deep twice, empowering the visiting New York Mets to give the Atlanta Braves a 9-0 on Wednesday. We won by 7. The Mets hit a total of four home runs and endured his two comebacks in Atlanta in the second half to end his eight-game winning streak for the Braves and regain the lead in the N.L. 4 1/2 games from the East.
According to the MLB pipeline and his 2019 first-round draft pick, Beatty, New York's No. 2 prospect, hits his 1-0 curveball off Jake Odridge. , stole his two RBIs over the right field wall.・He hit a home run in the second inning. He became the fifth Met to home run in his first career at-bat.
Marte and Francisco Lindor hit back-to-back home runs in his first inning. Marte added a solo shot from Tyler Yates in the seventh inning and hit 14 home runs. Lindor has 21 home runs.
Mets starter Max Scherzer (9-2) pitched his six and his 1/3 innings to earn his 199th career win. He allowed his 4 runs with his 3 hits, 3 walks and 8 strikeouts.
Scherzer now has 3,154 career strikeouts, passing Justin Verlander (3,151) for 13th on the all-time list, tying Pedro with Martinez.
Scherzer retired with the bases loaded in the seventh, though he cruised through the seventh inning and retired 13 straight times. Relief Adam Ottavino allowed a run to score on a fielder's choice, surrendering a three-run homer to Robbie Grossman. Ottavino walked Ronald Acuna, Jr., but was thrown out for stealing by James McCann, ending the inning. The Mets scored his three insurance runs in the ninth on Pete Alonso's two-run single and Daniel Vogelbach's RBI double.
Atlanta scored twice off reliever Trevor May on Vaughn Grissom's two-run single in the ninth, but he recovered to van Grossman to retire Acuna on a fly ball.
Odridge (4-5) allowed his five runs as he pitched five innings, allowing eight hits, two walks and two strikeouts.
The game was suspended in the third inning as he rained for 34 minutes.
– Field Level Media
