 walked two, struck out four and beat the Mets for the third time in his two-year career. A. J. Pierzynski added an RBI double and the Braves, with the worst record in the majors at 7-19, won for the third time in five games following an eight-game skid. Harvey (2-4) didn't feel well Monday and was given fluids to help him recover Tuesday afternoon, Mets manager Terry Collins said. The right-hander pitched out of a second-inning jam but faltered in the fifth and sixth. The speedy Smith sliced a one-out drive into the left-field corner in the fifth and slid into third with what appeared to be a triple after the ball caromed away from Michael Conforto. But a 50-second crew chief replay review showed the ball barely cleared the orange line on the wall near the 335-foot sign. The initial call was overturned and Smith, batting ninth behind Wisler, trotted to the plate with his first major league home run. He hit 13 homers in four minor league seasons. It was only the sixth home run this season for the Braves, by far the fewest in the majors. Ex-Met Kelly Johnson singled leading off the sixth and stole second. He scored on the double by Pierzynski, who later dashed home on a wild pitch. Harvey was pulled after 100 pitches and 5 2/3 innings, and he returned to the dugout with his head down. He gave up eight hits and walked two while striking out four on a damp and dreary 53-degree night. One pitch after Cabrera singled, Wisler erased him by getting Kevin Plawecki to ground into an inning-ending double play. Arodys Vizcaino worked a 1-2-3 ninth for his third save. The 23-year-old Wisler tossed eight sharp innings to beat Jacob deGrom and the Mets 2-1 in his big league debut last June 19. The right-hander was acquired from San Diego in April 2015 in the trade that sent All-Star closer Craig Kimbrel to the Padres. TRAINER'S ROOMBraves: OF Ender Inciarte (strained left hamstring) will begin a rehab assignment Wednesday with Triple-A Gwinnett, which is off Thursday. If all goes well, Inciarte would play for Gwinnett again Friday and could rejoin the Braves on Saturday or Sunday during the home series against Arizona, manager Fredi Gonzalez said. ... 2B Gordon Beckham (strained left hamstring) will start his rehab assignment Saturday at Gwinnett and could come off the disabled list in time for next week's series against Philadelphia, Gonzalez said. ... Atlanta signed free agent LHP Sean Burnett to a minor league contract. Mets: Lefty reliever Josh Edgin, working his way back from Tommy John surgery, pitched a scoreless inning Monday night in his first outing since his rehab assignment was moved to Triple-A Las Vegas. Edgin has yielded one run over 5 1/3 innings in seven minor league rehab games. UP NEXTBraves: RHP Jhoulys Chacin (1-1, 3.27 ERA) starts the series finale Wednesday afternoon. He lost to Steven Matz and the Mets on April 23 in Atlanta. Mets: After a dreadful outing in his first start of the season, Matz (3-1, 3.86) has won three in a row, compiling a 0.93 ERA and 21 strikeouts over 19 1/3 innings during that stretch. The rookie left-hander has seven major league wins, most by any Mets pitcher through his first 10 regular-season games. Two of those victories have come against the Braves.
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Time: 07:10 P.M. EST Venue: Citi Field
The New York Mets' first-inning outburst reinforced their recent dominance over the Atlanta Braves while accentuating this season's power disparity between the two. The Mets hope to stretch their home run differential over baseball's worst team on Tuesday night when they go for their fifth straight win over the visiting Braves. New York (16-8) failed to homer for just the second time in a dozen games in Sunday's 6-1 loss to San Francisco, ending an eight-game winning streak. The first inning of Monday's opener against Atlanta (6-19) made up for the brief power outage. David Wright, Yoenis Cespedes and Lucas Duda all went deep in a span of 16 pitches, and Bartolo Colon held down the light-hitting Braves for a 4-1 win - New York's ninth in 11 games in this series." I definitely think we are pretty hot right now," Cespedes told MLB's official website through an interpreter. "But I think we really have the potential in this lineup to be hitting those kind of home runs throughout the whole season." The homers, which were part of five straight hits that included Michael Conforto's single and a double from Asdrubal Cabrera, moved the Mets' total to 36. It was the first time they have hit three homers in the first inning since April 13, 2006. Absurdly, they were also more than the Braves have in their last 20 games. Atlanta's five home runs are 12 fewer than the next closest team, the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Braves are averaging a NL-low 3.20 runs with a .228/.297/.289 slash line, and they have gone deep just twice since April 10. After New York opened with two home runs in its first eight games, it has 34 in the last 16. Cespedes has seven while hitting .326 with 22 RBIs in his last 12 games. The Mets, who scored a record 12 runs in one inning last week, have back-to-back homers on five occasions, most in the majors. They hit three in an inning last month in Cleveland. The Braves are tasked with reversing their hitting woes against Matt Harvey, who gutted through five innings in a 6-3 win on April 22 during New York's three-game sweep in Atlanta. Harvey (2-3, 4.76 ERA) needed 101 pitches but held the Braves to a pair of runs and seven hits. He has a 2.92 ERA in four career starts against them, allowing just one home run and striking out 26 in 24 2/3 innings. No current Braves have homered in the matchup, and Freddie Freeman and Nick Markakis are a combined 0 for 14 with five strikeouts. Atlanta's Matt Wisler (0-2, 4.26) made his MLB debut against the Mets on June 19, allowing six hits and one run in eight innings - en route to a 2-1 mark and 2.14 ERA in three 2015 starts against them. Conforto went 3 for 6 in the matchup, while Cespedes was 2 for 6 with a double and Wright had a home run in six at-bats. Wisler allowed four runs in the first inning of last Tuesday's 11-4 loss to Boston before settling down and allowing just one over the next four frames. Ten of the 12 earned runs the right-hander has surrendered have come in three innings. The Braves made seven moves this week, calling up Mike Foltynewicz, Reid Brignac, Matt Tuiasosopo and Chase d'Arnaud - brother of injured New York catcher Travis d'Arnaud. Jace Peterson and John Gant were optioned to Triple-A Gwinett and Drew Stubbs was designated for assignment.'' I don't think it's a desperation move,'' manager Fredi Gonzalez said. ''It gives you hope, it really does. When you see the young people coming up, you're seeing the talent. It gives the fans hope, too."
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