DJ Stewart’s slump-ending homer lifts Mets over Braves

DJ Stewart snapped a season-long hitless streak by delivering a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the eighth inning Monday night for the visiting New York Mets, who overcame an early four-run deficit to beat the Atlanta Braves 8-7.The Mets have won three of four games to begin their first road trip of the season. The Braves had their three-game winning streak snapped in the opener of a four-game series.Ozzie Albies (two-run double) and Marcell Ozuna (two-run homer) staked the Braves to a 4-0 lead in the third before Starling Marte began the Mets’ comeback with a fourth-inning RBI single.Atlanta’s Brandon Nimmo hit the first of his two game-tying homers, a three-run blast in the fifth inning, before Travis d’Arnaud put the Braves ahead with a run-scoring double in the sixth. Nimmo hit a solo homer to center in the seventh.The Mets finally took the lead against Pierce Johnson (2-1) in the eighth, when Brett Baty singled with one out and Stewart — hitless in his first 19 plate appearances — hit a two-out homer to center.Jeff McNeil walked and Tyrone Taylor singled before Nimmo provided a key insurance run with an RBI single off Jesse Chavez. Nimmo finished 4-for-4 and with a career-high five RBIs.The Braves nearly came back in the final two innings. Albies worked a bases-loaded walk against Drew Smith in the eighth before Austin Riley hit into an inning-ending forceout.Jorge Lopez earned his first save during an eventful ninth. Matt Olson led off with a double and Taylor saved a run by making a leaping catch of a long fly to left by Ozuna. Olson tagged up and went to third before scoring on Michael Harris II’s single.

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