Glavine dazzles former team, helps Braves to 6-1 win over Mets

ATLANTA - After a very shaky start, Tom Glavine was downright unhittable against his former team.

Glavine retired his last 17 batters during his first post-New York appearance against the Mets and led the Atlanta Braves to another home win, 6-1 in the opener of a day-night doubleheader Tuesday.

The 42-year-old left-hander allowed only three hits and a walk - all in the first. He left after six innings, and Will Ohman, Blaine Boyer and Manny Acosta finished for the Braves.

After the first, the Mets didn't have another runner until Jose Reyes singled off Boyer with two outs in the eighth. New York, coming off a two-game sweep of the Yankees, managed just six hits.

Brian McCann homered and drove in three runs for the Braves, who improved the NL's best home record to 17-5. They are 6-16 away from Turner Field.

The doubleheader was scheduled after the teams were rained out April 4. In the night game, Jorge Campillo set to make his first start since 2005, with New York starting Claudio Vargas.

The opener started ominously for Glavine (2-1), who spent the prior five seasons with the Mets before re-signing with his original team over the winter.

On Glavine's sixth pitch of the game, Luis Castillo lofted a fly ball that barely cleared the wall in left for his first homer of the season. The Mets were poised for a big inning when David Wright and Ryan Church sandwiched singles around a walk to Carlos Beltran, loading the bases with only one out.

But Moises Alou lined out to third, and slumping Carlos Delgado flied out to right to leave the Braves with just a 1-0 deficit.

After that, Glavine was untouchable. The Mets went three-up, three-down over the next five innings while Atlanta handed John Maine (5-3) his first loss in nearly a month. The right-hander had won four straight starts but was knocked around in this one, giving up four runs and eight hits in four-plus innings.

Mark Teixeira tied it in the bottom half of the first with a two-out, run-scoring single. McCann put the Braves ahead to stay with another two-out single in the second, driving in Chipper Jones.

Yunel Escobar's fourth-inning sacrifice fly made it 3-1, and the Braves finished off Maine in the fifth. Jones led off with a walk and Teixeira followed with his third single of the game, prompting Mets manager Willie Randolph to go to the bullpen. Jones came around to score his second run on Kelly Johnson's sacrifice fly against Scott Schoeneweis.

McCann clinched it in the seventh against Aaron Heilman. Teixiera led off with a walk and McCann drove a 3-2 pitch over the center-field wall for his eighth homer.

-- NOTES: Jones went 1-for-4, dropping his average to .406. ... Delgado shows little sign of escaping his season-long slump. He went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts and was hitting just .224.