The Mets bounced back from Tuesday's shutout loss with a 9-7 win over the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday.
Here are five things to know...
1. In the top of the second inning, Brett Baty was at the center of a magical moment. In his first major league at-bat, the 22-year-old blasted the second pitch he saw in the bigs for a two-run homer to right. With his family members watching from the stands, Baty became just the fifth Met ever to homer in his first career at-bat.
The left-handed-hitting third baseman waited back on a Jake Odorizzi curveball and crushed it out to right field, much to the delight of his family members and teammates.
Baty ended up going 1-for-4 with two RBI, including a 113 mph ground out that was the hardest hit ball by a Mets left-handed hitter off a lefty pitcher since 2016.
2. The Mets made sure they weren't going to be shut out on back-to-back nights, as they jumped on Odorizzi in the first inning thanks to back-to-back homers from Starling Marte and Francisco Lindor. Just three batters into the game, the Mets jumped out to a 2-0 lead in support of Max Scherzer.
And Marte wasn't done there. In the top of the seventh, Marte again took aim at dead center field, crushing a Kirby Yates pitch out of the park for his second homer of the night.
3. Given that early lead, Scherzer looked in command. The righty had to deal with a 34-minute rain delay in the bottom of the third, and the Braves scratched a run across in that inning on a Dansby Swanson sac fly.
But Scherzer struck back in the fourth, striking out the side on just 13 pitches and then needed just eight pitches to retire the side in order in the fifth.
4. Scherzer pitched into the seventh, but he loaded the bases with one away in the frame, forcing Buck Showalter to go to the bullpen in a five-run game. After Adam Ottavino nearly got out of the inning on a double play (the out call at first was overturned), Robbie Grossman made him pay with a three-run homer, cutting the Mets’ lead to 6-5.
That also closed the line on Scherzer, who went 6.1 innings, allowing four earned runs on three hits with eight strikeouts and three walks. Scherzer had allowed two runs or fewer in 10 straight starts before Wednesday night.
Ottavino struggled to get out of the inning, but James McCann gunned down Ronald Acuna Jr. at second base to record the third out.
5. With the Mets up one run in the eighth, Showalter turned to Edwin Diaz against the heart of the Braves order. Diaz threw slider after slider to retire the side in order with a pair of strikeouts.
In the top of the ninth, Pete Alonso provided two huge insurance runs, coming up with a two-run single to push the Mets' lead to 8-5. Daniel Vogelbach added another run on an RBI double, and with the game no longer a save situation, it was Trevor May who came in to pitch the ninth.
May allowed a pair of runs but was able to eventually close the door.