Mets ride Beltran's bat to series sweep of Braves
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Carlos Beltran smacked a third grand  slam home run of the month to power the New York Mets to a 10-6  win over the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field on Sunday.
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NEW YORK -- Mark Teixeira hit a three-run homer and the Atlanta Braves roughed up a rusty Orlando Hernandez in a 13-5 victory over the New York Mets on Tuesday night.
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Oliver Perez pitched seven scoreless innings, David Wright hit his fourth homer in the last four games, and the New York Mets shut out the Braves, 3-0, last night in Atlanta, increasing their National League East lead over their rivals to 2 1/2 games.
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The Colorado Rockies avoided a series sweep at the hands of the New York Mets by getting some unexpected pop from the top and bottom of their lineup.
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Adrian Beltre went 5 for 5 with his major league-leading 42d home run, and the Los Angeles Dodgers got a pair of big pinch hits yesterday in a 4-2 victory over the Mets in New York.
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Pedro Martinez got off to a rough start in his return from the disabled list. Then, he looked as good as ever. Martinez surrendered four runs in the first inning but didn't give up any more, and the New York Mets stretched their already commanding lead in the NL East with a 6-4 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Friday night.
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New York took another big beating in Denver. Todd Helton and Garrett Atkins both drove in a season-high five runs and the Colorado Rockies pounded out 20 hits and routed the Mets again Wednesday night, this time 17-7 to become the first team in more than half a century to sweep two New York clubs in the same year.
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The Atlanta Braves rode a team  record-tying six hits and six RBIs by Willie Harris to a 14-6  rout of the St Louis Cardinals on Saturday, the win moving them  back to within 2  games of the New York Mets in the NL East.
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The Braves defeated the Mets Monday on a combined one-hitter, with the rookie left-hander Chuck James pitching eight innings.
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With a record-tying eight homers, Carlos Beltran pushed the Astros into tonight's Game 7 of the N.L.C.S. Cardinals.
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Lance Berkman and Carlos Beltran hit two-run homers Wednesday to propel Houston to a 9-3 win over Atlanta in the opener of their NL Division Series.
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Carlos Beltran hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning, putting a rousing ending to a night of grand-slam derby and rallying the New York Mets over the St. Louis Cardinals 8-7 Tuesday.
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Carlos Beltran and the New York Mets just about put away the Braves with a three-game sweep in Atlanta. Beltran hit two homers, including his third grand slam in July, and New York completed its first sweep of at least three games in Atlanta in 21 years by beating its longtime nemesis 10-6 Sunday.
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Kris Benson continued to do his best negotiating on the mound last night, throwing a four-hit shutout as the Mets rolled over the Braves, 7-0, at Shea Stadium.
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The Mets score their first two runs on errors, and Carlos Beltran's two-run double breaks the game open to help them beat the Marlins, 6-2, Friday night.
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Carlos Beltran belted a solo home run to right field, his second of the series off Atlanta starter Jaret Wright, to put the Houston Astros ahead of the Braves 3-0 after three innings in the decisive Game 5 of their NL Division Series on Monday night.
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Behind contributions from Paul Lo Duca, Shawn Green and Guillermo Mota, the Mets stampeded to a victory against the Los Angeles Dodgers that completed a three-game sweep of their division series.