The New York Mets sweep a doubleheader in Atlanta

The New York Mets defeated the Atlanta Braves by the scores of 4-3 and 6-1. The games took place at Turner Field in Atlanta, Georgia. It was a day for the Mets future as Matt Harvey pitched the day game and was great and then Zach Wheeler made his major league debut at night and pitched well. Daniel Murphy and Marlon Byrd led the offense in the day game. In the nightcap Byrd led the offense with three hits but three other players had two hits each.

Harvey pitched seven innings giving up three hits and three runs with three walks and 13 strikeouts. Harvey won his sixth game of the season, LaTroy Hawkins pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a strikeout, Scott Rice gave up a hit and a walk and didn’t record an out and Bobby Parnell saved his 10th game of the season pitching 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and striking out two.

Colin Cowgill drew a walk, Murphy had two hits and David Wright drew a walk. Byrd had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk, Lucas Duda drew two walks and John Buck had a hit and an RBI. Juan Lagares had a hit, Jordany Valdespin had an RBI and drew a walk and Omar Quintanilla had a hit and an RBI. Byrd hit a double and Buck hit a homerun. The Mets were 1-9 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base.

Alex Wood started for the Braves and took the loss his first of the season. Wood pitched three innings giving up two hits and a run with three walks and five strikeouts. Cory Rasmus pitched three innings giving up three hits and a run with three strikeouts, Cory Gearrin pitched an inning giving up a hit and drew a walk and David Carpenter pitched an inning giving up a hit and two runs with two walks and two strikeouts. Jordan Walden pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout.

Jordan Schafer had a hit, two RBI and drew a walk, Jason Heyward had two hits and an RBI and Freddie Freeman drew a walk. Brandon Laird drew a walk, Dan Uggla had two hits and drew a walk and Simmons had a hit. Heyward hit a double and the Braves were 3-7 and left six men on base. Heyward was caught stealing and Freeman committed an error.

In the third Byrd hit an RBI single giving the Mets a 1-0 lead. Buck hit a solo homerun in the fourth to make it a 2-0 game. Valdespin had an RBI walk in the eighth and Quintanilla had a sacrifice fly to make it a 4-0 game. Schafer hit a two run single in the bottom of the eighth and Heyward hit an RBI double to make it 4-3 but that would be the final score.