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09-19-2005, 01:30 AM

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POSTGAME ALERT<hr color="#000000" noshade="noshade" size="1" width="100%">
September 18, 2005
Atlanta 1, N.Y. Mets 4 at Shea Stadium

Winning pitcher - Tom Glavine (11-13)
Losing pitcher - John Thomson (3-5)

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HR: ATL: M. Giles (12) NYM: C. Floyd (32)
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GaryMrMets

09-19-2005, 01:31 AM

Mets 4, Braves 1

By BRIAN MAHONEY
.c The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - Tom Glavine really wanted to finish his start - and not because of who he was facing.

Glavine pitched a six-hitter to beat his former team and Cliff Floyd hit his career-high 32nd homer, leading the New York Mets over the Atlanta Braves 4-1 Sunday.

Glavine (11-13) got Jeff Francoeur to bounce back to the mound to finish his 54th career complete game and his first since a 4-0 victory over Colorado on May 23, 2004. He was pleased with being able to go the distance in his 273rd career win.

``Not because of my personal relationship with them, but because they're a good team,'' Glavine said. ``Any time you get a complete game against anybody it's nice, particularly against a first-place club that's had success against you.''

Victor Diaz and Carlos Beltran each added an RBI double during a four-run sixth inning, helping the Mets end another frustrating season against their NL East rivals by taking two of three over the weekend. Atlanta won the season series 13-6, its fifth straight year with double-digit victories against New York.

No Met had been more frustrated by the Braves than Glavine, who entered 1-8 with a 7.85 ERA in 11 career appearances against the team he won two Cy Young Awards with. But he snapped a personal three-game losing streak and won for the first time since Aug. 22.

``It's nice to see him kind of even things out 'cause he's struggled against them in the past,'' Mets manager Willie Randolph said.

Glavine outpitched John Thomson, who had only one bad inning. But that was enough to keep him winless since May 5. The right-hander is 0-3 in six starts since missing nearly three months with an injured middle finger.

``They came out aggressive in that inning,'' Thomson said. ``Three first-pitch fastballs and they were right on them.''

The Braves lost for the fifth time in seven games. They began the day with a five-game lead over Philadelphia, and host the Phillies in a three-game series starting Tuesday.

Thomson (3-5) took a three-hitter into the sixth before allowing the first four batters to score. Jose Reyes drew a leadoff walk and scored on Diaz's double. Beltran followed with another run-scoring double before Floyd hit the next pitch over the 396-foot sign in right-center for his 200th homer and a 4-1 lead.

``I always believe hitting is contagious,'' Floyd said. ``You start getting a couple of hits, you don't go up there thinking. You put the pitcher in a bind. Once you get somebody having to think a little bit, then you've got him.''

The Braves quickly put runners at the corners to open the seventh, but Glavine struck out Brian Jordan and got Johnny Estrada to ground into an inning-ending double play.

Marcus Giles hit his second homer in two days in the sixth, but the only other trouble for Glavine came in the fifth, when the Braves had runners on second and third with one out. But after Jordan popped out, Glavine intentionally walked Estrada and fanned Thomson.

Glavine lost to the Braves on April 27 when he yielded seven runs and 12 hits in 4 1-3 innings. That was during a dismal start to the season, when he opened 1-4.

``I had a lot of people pouring dirt on my grave earlier in the year,'' he said.

But Glavine has worked at making his routine less predictable, and the results have come. He has allowed three earned runs or fewer in eight straight starts - though he is only 3-4 during that span because of the Mets' inconsistent offense - and the Braves certainly seemed fooled on Sunday.

``He was pretty good,'' Giles said. ``He's mixing in a curveball now. Every time I played behind him he never had a curveball.''

The Mets had runners at the corners with none out in the second, but Mike Piazza flied out and Thomson struck out rookies Mike Jacobs and Anderson Hernandez.

Hernandez made his major league debut after being called up Saturday. He went 0-for-4, flying out to center with the bases loaded in the eighth.

Notes:@ There was a moment of silence before the game for Donn Clendenon, the MVP of the Mets' 1969 World Series victory who died Saturday at 70 after a long battle with leukemia. ... Braves CF Andruw Jones' single in the fifth snapped an 0-for-14 slump since he hit his 50th homer Wednesday at Philadelphia. ... Piazza was robbed of a hit with a diving catch for the second straight day when Jordan caught his line drive to left in the fourth. Piazza hit a liner to center Saturday that appeared to hit the grass just before Jones grabbed it with a lunge. ... Both Mets wins in the series were complete games - Pedro Martinez blanked the Braves in the opener.

09/18/05 17:41 EDT

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Braves-Mets Box Score

.c The Associated Press

ATLANTA ab r h bi
Furcal ss 3 0 0 0
MGiles 2b 4 1 1 1
CJones 3b 4 0 0 0
AJones cf 4 0 1 0
Francoeur rf 4 0 1 0
LaRoche 1b 3 0 2 0
BJordan lf 3 0 1 0
JEstrada c 2 0 0 0
Thomson p 2 0 0 0
Betemit ph 1 0 0 0
Lerew p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 6 1

NEW YORK ab r h bi
Reyes ss 3 1 1 0
Diaz rf 4 1 1 1
Beltran cf 4 1 1 1
Floyd lf 4 1 3 2
Wright 3b 4 0 1 0
Piazza c 3 0 0 0
Jacobs 1b 3 0 0 0
Hernandez 2b 4 0 0 0
TGlavine p 3 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 7 4

Atlanta 000 001 000-1
New York 000 004 00x-4

E-MGiles (12), JEstrada (2). DP-New York 2. LOB-Atlanta 4, New York 7. 2B-Francoeur (20), LaRoche (26), Diaz (16), Beltran (31). HR-MGiles (12), Floyd (32). SB-Reyes 2 (54), Wright (17). CS-Furcal (10).

IP H R ER BB SO
Atlanta
Thomson L,3-5 7 6 4 4 1 6
Lerew 1 1 0 0 2 0

New York
TGlavine W,11-13 9 6 1 1 2 3

IBB-off TGlavine (JEstrada) 1. Umpires-Home, Rob Drake; First, Wally Bell; Second, John Hirschbeck; Third, Lance Barksdale. T-2:18. A-31,703 (57,369).

09/18/05 15:35 EDT

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