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Braves’ weird plan to throw off Wilmer Flores totally backfires

ATLANTA — Though he grew up watching “The Flintstones” — in Spanish — Wilmer Flores had no idea why the Braves’ organist has been playing the cartoon’s theme song before each of his at-bats. The music hadn’t even caught his attention.

“Wilma!”

As it turns out, Flores is really Bam Bam — an unstoppable force in the Mets’ lineup who seems superhuman lately.

With his 6-for-9 performance in Saturday’s doubleheader sweep of the Braves, the Mets infielder continued his rampage through Bedrock. He is now 39-for-99 (.394) in his past 31 games, excelling against both lefties and righties.