Mets get reality check while Jeff McNeil exits with injury

ATLANTA — The energy that had buoyed the Mets during their consecutive winning streaks over the last three weeks was conspicuously absent Tuesday night.

Zack Wheeler was flat, and the lineup behind him equally unimpressive. A game that had a blah feel in the suffocating Georgia humidity ended with the Mets contemplating a two-game skid for the first time since their recent rebirth.

That’s two steps backward since Sunday, with a 5-3 loss to the Braves at SunTrust Park that pushed the Mets nine games back in the NL East race.

The Mets (61-58) hadn’t lost two straight since the Giants beat them in consecutive extra-inning games on July 18 and 19. Since then the Mets were 17-4, a stretch that had…