New York Mets vs Atlanta Braves Match Player Stats On Jun 09, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Jun 9, 2017

ATLANTA -- Pinch-hitter Rio Ruiz had the first game-ending hit of his career Friday night, scoring another rookie for the Atlanta Braves' third walk-off victory of the season.

Dansby Swanson hustled an apparent single up the middle into a double with one out in the ninth inning and Ruiz singled to the opposite field on reliever Josh Edgin's first pitch to give the Braves a 3-2 victory over the New York Mets.

Swanson had a two-run double, and Curtis Granderson and Travis d'Arnaud hit homers for the Mets.

Jim Johnson, who pitched the top of the ninth for the Braves, got the victory and Fernando Salas, who gave up the one-out hit by Swanson, took the loss.

Neither bullpen could hold leads as starters Julio Teheran of the Braves and Matt Harvey of the Mets got no-decisions.

Teheran, who has an 8-4 career record against the Mets, allowed four hits and a run in six innings, walking three and striking out three before being lifted for a pinch hitter.

Jason Motte gave up the tying homer in the seventh inning by d'Arnaud, who connected on a 1-1 pitch and sent a drive to left field for seventh blast of the season.

Harvey was pulled with a 1-0 lead after throwing 102 pitches in five innings in his first scoreless outing of the season and the Braves pounced on reliever Paul Sewald in the sixth.

Matt Kemp, who had three hits, led off with a double and Danny Santana was intentionally walked after Sewald threw three balls. Swanson pulled a 3-2 pitch to left field for a double, driving in both runners.

It was the first scoreless outing of the season for Harvey, who gave up six runs each time in consecutive losses to the Braves earlier this season. He allowed four hits, walked two and struck out three.

Teheran retired the first six batters before Granderson led off the third inning by picking on a 2-0 pitch and smashing his sixth homer of the season over the center-field fence.

The blast was the 15th allowed by Teheran, and it gave the Mets at least one homer in 12 straight road games and 23 of their past 25 away from New York.

The Braves left six runners on base in the first four innings against Harvey, including the bases loaded in the second.

NOTES: OF Yoenis Cespedes, sidelined since April 28 because of a hamstring injury, will be activated by the Mets as the extra 26th man for Saturday's split doubleheader and start one of the games against the Braves. ... Mets 2B Neil Walker was out of the lineup for a second straight game because of a sore left knee. ... LHP Steven Matz, who hasn't pitched for the Mets since August because of shoulder and elbow issues, will start the second game Saturday, with RHP Robert Gsellman (4-3, 5.53 ERA) pitching the opener. ... LHP Sean Newcomb will make his major league debut as the starter of the first game for the Braves. ... RHP Matt Wisler (0-0, 7.00 ERA) will come up from Triple-A Gwinnett as a 26th man and start the second game. ... The doubleheader was caused by a rainout on April 25. ... The Mets began a stretch of 18 games in 17 days Friday. ... The Braves end 14 games in 13 days next Wednesday in Washington.