Chipper Jones named his third son "Shea" for dad's fondness of the New York Mets' old ballpark, where the Braves third baseman did so much slugging.
So maybe Carlos Beltran should have a kid named "Turner." Beltran hit a pair of two-run homers off Javier Vazquez in the sixth and seventh innings Monday night to power the Mets to a 6-4 win against the Braves in the opener of a two-game set at Turner Field.
The Mets center fielder has 12 homers in 37 games at Turner, the most he's hit anywhere except his home ballparks with Kansas City and the Mets.
David Wright also hit a two-run homer in the sixth as the Mets erased the Braves' 3-0 lead and sent them to their 13th loss in 19 games, including eight in 10 home games.
"He probably made five bad pitches all night and three got hit out," manager Bobby Cox said of Vazquez (2-3), who allowed two hits through the first five scoreless innings.
"I just threw some bad, bad, bad pitches in bad locations," said Vazquez, particularly upset that he blew a three-run lead in his second consecutive loss.
"It happened the other day with Jo-Jo, too," said catcher David Ross, referring to Houston's three-run sixth inning against Jo-Jo Reyes in a 7-5 loss Sunday. "We've just got to stay away from those big innings."
Jones' eighth-inning solo homer closed the gap to 6-4 but the Braves failed to manufacture runs in any other inning except the second.
They scored three runs in the second on two hits and three walks against John Maine (2-2), who gave up six walks in six innings but didn't allow a run in his other five innings.
Braves rookie Jordan Schafer had his third consecutive three-strikeout game and leads the National League with 33 whiffs. He struck out with bases loaded in the second inning and with two runners in scoring position to end the sixth.
"He's fine," Cox said of Schafer, who is 5-for-37 with 18 strikeouts with runners on base, including 2-for-20 with 10 strikeouts with runners in scoring position.
Ross said, "Schafer isn't the only one struggling. I'm struggling. It's a team unit."
Vazquez has given up 11 runs and 16 hits in 14 innings in his past two starts.
Of Beltran's 26 multi-homer games, three have come at Turner Field. That doesn't include the 2004 division series, when he had three homers and seven RBI in three games here with Houston, including a two-homer game.
Meanwhile, Wright has 23 homers in 86 games against the Braves , eight more than he's hit against any other team.
