The New York Mets are shutout at home by the Atlanta Braves

The New York Mets were defeated by the Atlanta Braves by the score of 3-0 on Friday night. The game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York. Jon Niese started for the Mets and pitched well and their bullpen was pretty good. The Mets offense only managed five hits. Paul Maholm pitched well for the Braves and their bullpen pitched really well. The Braves offense was led by Jason Heyward and Dan Uggla. 
Niese pitched six innings giving up five hits and a run with a walk and two strikeouts. Niese lost his ninth game of the season. Bobby Parnell pitched an inning giving up a hit and an unearned run with a strikeout and Jenrry Mejia pitched two innings giving up a hit and a run with a strikeout. Maholm won his 12^th game of the season pitching 5 1/3 innings giving up five hits and three walks with six strikeouts. Chad Durbin struck out the only batter that he faced, Louis Avilan pitched to one batter and retired him and Jonny Venters pitched a perfect inning. Eric O’Flaherty pitched an inning giving up a walk and striking out two and Craig Kimbrel saved his 35^th game of the season pitching an inning with a walk and two strikeouts.

Ronny Cedeno had a hit and drew a walk, Daniel Murphy had a hit and David Wright had a hit. Ike Davis drew two walks, Kelly Shoppach had a hit and Jason Bay drew a walk. Fred Lewis drew a walk, Niese had a hit and the Mets were 0-10 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base. Shoppach committed an error.

Michael Bourn had a hit and drew a walk, Reed Johnson had a hit and Heyward had two hits and an RBI. Uggla had two hits and an RBI, David Ross had an RBI and Maholm had a hit. Uggla hit a double and hit a homerun. Heyward hit a homerun and the Braves were 1-3 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base. Jones committed an error and Ross a passed ball.

Heyward hit a solo homerun in the fourth giving the Braves a 1-0 lead. In the seventh Ross hit a sacrifice fly to give the Braves a 2-0 lead and then the final run was scored in the ninth. Uggla hit a solo homerun to make it 3-0 Braves and that was the final score.

The Braves took the first game of three. The Mets record dropped to 65-73 and the Braves record improved to 79-60.