NEW YORK METS (7-7, second place/NL East) at ATLANTA BRAVES (4-11, fifth place/NL East)
Sunday: RHP Jacob deGrom (1-0, 1.50) vs. TBA, 1:35 p.m. ET
BRAVES SHORT HOPS
The Braves opened the season with nine straight losses. The skid fell one defeat shy of matching a franchise-record 0-10 start in 1988. After the 0-9 start, Atlanta produced four straight wins before losing the final two games of this week’s series to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
There is no shortage of ex-Mets on the Braves -- although in Jeff Francoeur and Kelly Johnson’s cases, they actually began their careers with Atlanta as first-round picks, too.