ATLANTA — The first time Brett Baty stepped on the field in the big leagues, he simply took a look around.
“I wanted to soak it all in,” he said.
Then came a moment he’ll remember for a lifetime.
Baty homered in his first MLB at-bat, Starling Marte went deep twice and the New York Mets held off the Atlanta Braves in a 9-7 win Wednesday night to snap the hosts’ eight-game winning streak.
After being outscored 18-1 in the first two games of the series between National League East Division rivals at Truist Park, the first-place Mets jumped to a 6-1 lead and barely made it stand up to push their advantage over the second-place Braves back to 4 1/2 games.