Mets 6, Braves 3

I know IWOTM, but they must have been reading their “Weaver on Strategy.” Five of the Mets’ runs scored by a three run homer in the second (two walks followed by a blast) and a two run homer in the seventh (a walk followed by a blast). Their other run was on three straight singles with two outs in the sixth.

Kevin Gausman started for the Braves and went five and two thirds, giving up four runs. He actually pitched pretty well; the only hits he gave up were the three run dinger in the second, two of those three singles in the sixth, and a leadoff single in the fifth that he managed to pitch around. The killer was the mini-episode in the second, when he somehow lost the strike zone in walking…