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Braves Aim To Maintain Hot May Play Versus Mets

(Sports Network) - The Atlanta Braves are enjoying a fine month of baseball and will try to keep it that way tonight, when they resume a four-game series with the New York Mets at Turner Field.

The Braves are 12-6 in May and have won three in a row, including a sweep of Tuesday's day-night doubleheader in the opener of this set. Tom Glavine took the hill in the first game and foiled his former teammates with six solid innings, allowing just one run on three hits to pick up his 305th career win. Glavine, who spent the past five seasons with the Mets before returning to Atlanta, tied Eddie Plank for 20th on the all-time MLB wins list.

Brian McCann homered and drove in three runs to highlight the offense.

In the nightcap, Jorge Campillo pitched six shutout innings to record his first major-league victory to complete the sweep of the twinbill. Mark Kotsay homered and Kelly Johnson drove in two runs for the Braves, who are 4-0 at home against the Mets this season.

Campillo allowed three hits and struck out seven without walking a batter. The 29-year-old was making his second career start and first since August 2, 2005 versus Detroit. Manny Acosta threw the final 1 1/3 innings for his third save.

Atlanta is 4-1 so far on an 11-game homestand versus Oakland, New York and Arizona. It is an NL-best 18-5 as the host this season.

Jair Jurrjens gets another crack at the Mets when he toes the rubber for Atlanta tonight. Jurrjens beat the Mets on April 25 with six solid innings, giving up three runs and a pair of hits during a 6-3 victory. It was his first-ever game against NL East-rival New York.

Jurrjens last took the hill on May 16 versus Oakland and did not factor in the outcome of a 3-2 victory. He surrendered two unearned runs and eight hits over five innings of work, and is now 4-3 with a 2.82 ERA in nine starts this season. The righty is 0-1 in his last two outings.

In the opening game for the Mets on Tuesday, Luis Castillo homered and John Maine was touched for four runs on eight hits in four-plus innings for the loss. New York was fresh off a sweep of the cross-town rival Yankees in a rain-shortened two-game series.

Claudio Vargas was saddled with the loss in the second game after yielding five hits and four runs over five innings. Ramon Castro and Jose Reyes each had an RBI for the Mets, who have lost two straight and six of their last 10 games. Mets outfielder Ryan Church was taken to the hospital last night after he sustained a mild concussion when his head banged into the right knee of Braves shortstop Yunel Escobar.

Church, who was taken to Piedmont Hospital for a precautionary examination, is batting .311 with nine homers and 32 RBI this season. He also suffered a concussion in Spring Training.

New York is 2-2 so far on a nine-game road trip against the Yankees, Braves and Rockies. It is also 10-12 away from Shea Stadium this season.

Struggling pitcher Mike Pelfrey will try for his first win since mid-April when he takes the mound for the Mets tonight.

Pelfrey has lost four straight starts and is winless over the past five trips to the hill, with a 5.28 ERA over that span. He was solid in his previous start on May 15 versus Washington, allowing just one run and three hits in 7 2/3 innings of a tough 1-0 loss. He is now 2-4 with a 4.17 earned run average through seven starts this season.

The right-hander faced Atlanta on April 25 this season and was saddled with the loss after yielding five runs and nine hits in 5 1/3 frames. The Braves won the game by a 6-3 score. Pelfrey is 1-2 with a 5.40 ERA in four career appearances (three starts) against Atlanta.

Atlanta leads the season series against New York by a 5-2 count.

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Veteran right-hander Tim Hudson follows up his first career relief appearance with start No. 302 tonight, when the Atlanta Braves open the second half and a three-game series against the visiting Washington Nationals at Turner Field.

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