Despite possessing the best record in Major League Baseball, the Atlanta Braves have been presented with plenty of challenges during a season-long 11-game road trip.
The New York Mets, in the midst of their longest homestand thus far, received more reminders Friday of all that has gone wrong this season.
The Braves won Friday's opener in unusual fashion, when Charlie Morton and four relievers combined to allow seven hits and issue nine walks yet still blank the Mets, 7-0. "As a team, no one entity is insulated from when you're going to have to fight it," manager Brian Snitker said Friday afternoon of the Braves, who are the only team in baseball on a 100-win pace. "It's not easy and that's why you play six months and all six months count. So it's just one of those glitches that we're in right now."
"We just didn't put a lot of good swings when we had people out there on base," manager Buck Showalter said after the Mets fell 11 games under .500 and a season-high 21 1/2 games behind the Braves, with whom they finished tied atop the NL East last year.
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