Atlanta Braves Morning Chop: Mets survive first Cobb experience

The Mets were just happy to get out of Washington with enough warm bodies to work with after a bizarre week.  But Atlanta was unable to take advantage – so far – of Met maladies.

The Olympic Stadium effect didn’t work well for the Mets, but their first encounter in Cobb County was better as they defeated our Atlanta Braves, 7-5.

The crazy part was seeing Julio Teheran give up six earned runs to the New Yorkers… despite only allowing 6 hits (albeit with 3 walks mixed in).

But what we really don’t wish to see happen is for the Mets to start gaining some sort of confidence again – particularly in this shiny new stadium.  That would just work against everything that had been established at Turner Field over the past 20 years.

Mets house of horrors:  Turner Field

JOHN PERRICONE / RISINGAPPLE.COM

"“At the end of the Amityville Horror, George Lutz and his family are able to escape the house that proved to be the site of psychological and supernatural phenomena. As he carried the family dog to his 1970s style minivan, George jumps in the driver’s seat and speeds off….“As a Mets fan, it is safe to convey the theme of the haunted house used in horror movies to sports. In this instance, the idea of Turner Field serving as a haunted house for the Mets is not far off from reality.“During the late 1990s, the Braves were a dominant team and were in the middle of ten straight NL Eastern Division titles (1995-2005). Between the years 1997-2016, the Mets played 173 regular season games at Turner Field and their record is 67-106. Digging deeper, during the Braves’ decade-long dominance of the NL East, the Mets played 80 games at Turner Field and won a quarter of those games (20).”"

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Ed. note:  This is why it is important for the Braves to win this series.  Not for the sake of division rivalry or division competition, but because the Mets need to believe – as an organization – that nothing has changed here except the address.  That their lessons of futility have been dragged a few minutes north along I-75 to a more modern house with the same amenities of failure, despair, and crushed dreams.

Frankly, there’s enough of that already going around in the Mets’ clubhouse.  Players continue to get hurt and they are mired in the back end of the NL East (though you’d already need a telescope to keep up with the Nationals on the horizon).  Holes continue to appear in their earthen dam.

But now this beleaguered team has actually won 3 out of their last 4 (no, even a 23-5 loss still only counts as a single “L” in the books).  So the Braves need to do the right thing and put down the Mets before they can muster anything resembling hope.

Especially at SunTrust Park.

Here’s your box score…

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SCHEDULE – ALL GAMES 7:35PM EDT:

• TUE: Harvey vs. Dickey
• WED: deGrom vs. Colon
• THR: Wheeler vs. Garcia