ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Michael Harris II had three hits, including one of five Braves home runs, as Atlanta gave Chris Sale plenty of support in a 14-3 blowout over the New York Mets on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Eli White, Mauricio Dub\u00f3n, Mike Yastrzemski and Austin Riley also homered for Atlanta, which hit four home runs off Mets pitching in a 5-3 win on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Harris drove in two runs. White had four RBIs, Riley had three and Dub\u00f3n and Yastrzemski had two each.<\/p>\n
Sale (9-6), who was named an All-Star for the 10th time just before the game, gave up three runs on seven hits, including two home runs, and he matched a season-low with three strikeouts. Rookie JR Ritchie picked up his first save after throwing three scoreless innings to close the game.<\/p>\n
The last-place Mets have lost 12 of their last 14 and have dropped to 36-53. No team has ever reached the postseason from 17 games under .500, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.<\/p>\n
Sale was cruising until, with two outs in the fourth, he gave up a home run to Tyrone Taylor to end his major league-best (among starting pitchers) 46-inning homerless streak. In the fifth, he gave up a two-run homer to Mark Vientos and allowed the next two batters to reach before being pulled after 98 pitches.<\/p>\n
Sean Manaea (1-4) took the loss, giving up six runs on six hits in five innings.<\/p>\n
White’s solo home run into the Mets’ bullpen in the second inning gave the Braves a 1-0 lead, and his three-run double in the third broke the game open. With two outs, White hit a soft pop-up to center field. Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor and center fielder Taylor converged, and the ball bounced off Taylor’s glove as he was trying to avoid Lindor. The play gave the Braves a 5-1 lead.<\/p>\n
Mets right fielder Carson Benge extended his on-base streak to 16 games, and Lindor was 2 for 3.<\/p>\n
Braves LHP Martin Perez (6-5, 3.27 ERA) will oppose Mets RHP Nolan McLean (5-5, 3.78) in the third game of the four-game series Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Michael Harris II had three hits, including one of five Braves home runs, as Atlanta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[191,662,5,5805,919,663,227,228,370,3617,101,92350,661,119,4,1690,61,2548,4203,9500,9501,9496,9497,82908,22857,22858,22859,1268,1444],"class_list":["post-743466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-atlanta","tag-austin-riley","tag-baseball","tag-carson-benge","tag-chris-sale","tag-eli-white","tag-francisco-lindor","tag-mark-vientos","tag-martin-perez","tag-mauricio-dubon","tag-mets","tag-mets-braves-final-score","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mike-yastrzemski","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40781-ap-georgia-sports-only","tag-product-40800-ap-new-jersey-sports-only","tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","tag-sean-manaea","tag-tyrone-taylor"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}