NEW YORK -- Mets manager Terry Collins said his club returned to Citi Field earlier this month hoping for six, maybe seven victories on its season-opening homestand. The Mets wound up with 10, completing a perfect homestand with a 6-3 win over the Braves on Thursday afternoon, in the process tying their franchise-record 11-game winning streak.
Behind Bartolo Colon's fourth consecutive victory and Daniel Murphy's four RBIs, the Mets matched their 1986 predecessors for the best 16-game start in franchise history, improving their Majors-best record to 13-3.
They had some help in this one, as Braves pitchers walked eight batters over the game's first five innings.