{"id":35954,"date":"2022-08-05T03:55:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T03:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mets-new-additions-erupt-for-three-homers-in-win-over-braves\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T03:55:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T03:55:46","slug":"mets-new-additions-erupt-for-three-homers-in-win-over-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mets-new-additions-erupt-for-three-homers-in-win-over-braves\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; new additions erupt for three homers in win over Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Mets are whole, playing their best baseball of the season and establishing their promise against a team with postseason bona fides. <\/p>\n<p>They entered a five-game set against the Braves in first place in the NL East, and the Mets will finish the series in the same spot after riding four home runs to a 6-4 victory over the reigning World Series champions in front of 38,693 sweating fans on a muggy Thursday night at Citi Field. <\/p>\n<p>Manager Buck Showalter&#8217;s club, which moved 4 \u00b9\/\u2082 games up on Atlanta, has won nine of 10 and has begun to reinflate a division lead that had shrunk. <\/p>\n<p>The Mets (67-38) led the NL East by 10 \u00b9\/\u2082 games on June 1 before that lead shrank to a half-game by July 23. But since Atlanta got that close, excellent play, dominant work from Edwin Diaz and players returning to health have steadied the Mets. <\/p>\n<p>Catcher James McCann returned to the lineup Thursday, a day after Trevor May returned to the bullpen.  Atlanta will face a healthy Max Scherzer (Saturday) and Jacob deGrom (Sunday).  And the Braves got a bitter first taste of the Mets&#8217; recent additions, as left fielder Tyler Naquin homered twice in his first home game in Queens, while Daniel Vogelbach slugged his second home run in as many days. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><figcaption>Tyler Naquin hits his second home run of the night in the sixth inning. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Sabo for the NY POST<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-53.jpg?resize=1024%2C703&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Daniel Vogelbach reacts after crushing a solo homer in the third inning.\" class=\"wp-image-23341286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-53.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-53.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-53.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Daniel Vogelbach reacts after crushing a solo homer in the third inning. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Sabo for the NY POST<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As if demonstrating they can score in different ways when the occasion arises, the Mets used both small ball and the long ball to grab a lead they did not relinquish. <\/p>\n<p>In the first inning, Starling Marte reached on an infield single, moved to second on a walk to Francisco Lindor and scored on Pete Alonso&#8217;s RBI single. <\/p>\n<p>Then the Mets turned to the long ball. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-55.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tyler Naquin is greeted in the Mets dugout after his sixth-inning home run.\" class=\"wp-image-23341288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-55.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-55.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-55.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Tyler Naquin is greeted in the Mets dugout after his sixth-inning home run. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Sabo for the NY POST<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-52.jpg?resize=1024%2C707&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Daniel Vogelbach, right, celebrates with Pete Alonso after his home run.\" class=\"wp-image-23341285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-52.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-52.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-52.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Daniel Vogelbach, right, celebrates with Pete Alonso after his home run. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Sabo for the NY POST<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Naquin&#8217;s first at-bat as a Met resulted in a second-inning homer, his eighth of the season.  Alonso, who went 2-for-3 with three more RBIs to reach 91 on the year, got a mistake curveball in the third inning and destroyed it for a two-run homer, his 29th of the year.  Four pitches later, Vogelbach, in the lineup against Braves righty starter Kyle Wright, swatted a homer to right. <\/p>\n<p>That was all the scoring the Mets needed, though there were a couple of scares from Carlos Carrasco and the Mets&#8217; bullpen until Diaz shut the door. <\/p>\n<p>Carrasco, who pushed his scoreless-innings streak to 22 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings, was rolling until the fifth.  The Mets righty, who posted a 0.90 ERA in July, allowed just one hit in his first four frames, but Atlanta&#8217;s Michael Harris II knocked an RBI single before Carraso threw a juicy slider to Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr., whose two-run homer brought the Braves to within 5-3. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"758\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-56.jpg?resize=1024%2C758&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Carlos Carrasco pitches on Thursday during the Mets' win over the Braves.\" class=\"wp-image-23341289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-56.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-56.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-56.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Carlos Carrasco pitches on Thursday during the Mets&#8217; win over the Braves. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Sabo for the NY POST<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-51.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pete Alonso rips a two-run home run in the third inning.\" class=\"wp-image-23341284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-51.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-51.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/New-York-Mets-v-Arizona-Diamondbacks-51.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Pete Alonso rips a two-run home run in the third inning. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Sabo for the NY POST<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They got no closer.  The Mets scored one more run in the sixth on Naquin&#8217;s second homer of the game, and the Braves answered with one run against Adam Ottavino in the seventh.  But with a runner on and Acu\u00f1a at the plate, Ottavino&#8217;s best slider of the night struck out the superstar swinging. <\/p>\n<p>Showalter called on Diaz, who had not pitched since Friday, for his first six-out save of the season.  And as Diaz has done all season, he obliged. <\/p>\n<p>Diaz, who set the Braves down in order in the eighth, surrendered a leadoff single to Eddie Rosario in the ninth.  He then got Travis d&#8217;Arnaud to fly out, struck out Marcell Ozuna and got Orlando Arcia to tap out back to the mound with the crowd on its feet.  Diaz has not allowed a run in his past 16 games and picked up his 24th and perhaps largest save. <\/p>\n<p>The Mets have won five of the eight games this season against the Braves, with four more to play this weekend before the final seven head-to-head battles in Atlanta. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s best for the reinvigorated Mets that the Braves portion of the schedule was backloaded.  The Mets are healthy, reloaded and rolling.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets are whole, playing their best baseball of the season and establishing their promise against a team with postseason bona fides. They entered a five-game set against the Braves in first place in the NL East, and the Mets will finish the series in the same spot after riding four home runs to a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mets-new-additions-erupt-for-three-homers-in-win-over-braves\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mets&#8217; new additions erupt for three homers in win over Braves<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[829,13313,11761,661,1476,6052,307,12652],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11777,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/max-scherzer-dominates-as-mets-beat-braves-in-series-opener\/","url_meta":{"origin":35954,"position":0},"title":"Max Scherzer dominates as Mets beat Braves in series-opener","date":"July 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"ATLANTA \u2014 Truist Park became circus Maximus on Monday, but only one ace named Max really delivered. 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